{"product_id":"mr-wizard-a-novel-1948598302","title":"Mr. Wizard: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1948598302\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wallach, Jeff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The writing is knowing and engaging, wise about its cultural orientations, and driven to discoveries both reassuring and life-enhancing.\"-Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor Emeritus, The Atlantic\"Jeff Wallach is a prodigiously gifted writer-insightful, funny, and always surprising. Mr. Wizard twists and turns like a double helix. When you finish, you'll want to go back to the very first page and experience it all over again, just to see how Wallach pulled it off.\"-Terri Cheney, author of New York Times bestseller, Manic: A MemoirTwo brothers. One mother. One big question.Two days before her death, Jenny Elliot suggests to her fifty-year-old son Phillip that, being half Irish, he should be more careful about his drinking. Phillip, along with his brother Spencer, has grown up believing they were the fully Jewish-American offspring of Jenny and her late husband who died in the Vietnam War. Was his mother uttering some dementia-inspired fantasy, or was her true character shining through in her last moments to leave the brothers a clue to their real heritage? After her death, Phillip decides to take a DNA test.The brothers set off on a genetic treasure hunt in search of who they really are-and what that might mean. Are they purely products of their genetics; or were they formed more completely by their social interactions and upbringing? Are they merely victims of randomness; or are they some combination of those factors? And who, exactly, is Mr. Wizard?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52217623085344,"sku":"NEW1948598302","price":23.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61QuQlFuy4L.jpg?v=1787258535","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/mr-wizard-a-novel-1948598302","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}