{"product_id":"belief-is-its-own-kind-of-truth-maybe-9781938769429","title":"Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori Jakiela's memoir examines both the lives we are born with and the lives we create for ourselves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter her adoptive mother's death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. Amid this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family's medical history to gather answers for her daughter's newly revealed medical ailments. This memoir brings together these parallel searches while chronicling intergenerational questions of family. Desires for emotional resolution comingle with concerns of medical inheritance and loss in this honest, humorous, and heartbreaking memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori Jakiela\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eBelief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the 2016 William Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University, was a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazine and Small Presses Firecracker Award and the Housatonic Literary Award, and named one of 20 Not-to-Miss Books of Nonfiction of 2015 by \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Jakiela is the author of an essay collection, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker \u003c\/i\u003e(Bottom Dog Press), as well as two other memoirs--\u003ci\u003eMiss New York Has Everything\u003c\/i\u003e (Hatchette) and\u003ci\u003e The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious\u003c\/i\u003e (C\u0026amp;R Press). She is also the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eSpot the Terrorist\u003c\/i\u003e (Turning Point) and several limited-edition poetry chapbooks. Her latest poetry chapbook, \u003ci\u003eBig Fish\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Stranded Oak Press in 2016. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrevity, \u003c\/i\u003e and more.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874071220498,"sku":"9781938769429","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5a6e154-09ab-48f3-aede-3668c1c623c2.jpg?v=1737982163","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/belief-is-its-own-kind-of-truth-maybe-9781938769429","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}