{"product_id":"the-jazz-club-spybooks","title":"The Jazz Club Spy","description":"\u003cb\u003eNominated for the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War II—from the #1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Midwife of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York, 1939\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGiddy Brodsky knows she’s lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club, but she dreams of opening her own beauty shop and lifting her family out of poverty. The Brodskys have lived cheek to jowl in the Lower East Side tenements since they came to America nineteen years ago, fleeing a deadly pogrom in their Russian village. But they continue to face prejudice, especially with the rise of the fascist organization the American Bund.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYet Giddy is focused on the future—until she recognizes one of the Cossacks who irrevocably changed her life and the past comes flooding back. Determined to get justice, she enlists the help of Carter van der Zalm, a regular at the jazz club who also happens to be the director with the Department of Immigration at Ellis Island. When Carter discloses that the Cossack is an “undesirable” and may be of interest to the government, Giddy agrees to moonlight as a spy for him.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNot everyone is who they appear to be, and after a shocking betrayal, Giddy finds herself embroiled in a political conspiracy that could bring America into the war in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom the gritty tenements to the glittering jazz clubs of 1930s New York, \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Club Spy\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling historical novel about a brash young woman who must use all her wits to save the ones she loves.","brand":"Rich, Roberta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":48421244174560,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9935f353-bd50-4ff3-bb97-d99be10cd0ea.jpg?v=1765817773","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-jazz-club-spybooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}