{"product_id":"firebird-a-memoir-9780060931971","title":"Firebird: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his powerful autobiography, \u003cem\u003eFirebird, \u003c\/em\u003e Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's \"Get Happy\" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, \"Son, you're a boy!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One. A self-confessed \"chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent,\" Doty grew up on the move, the family following his father's engineering work across America-from Tennessee to Arizona, Florida to California. A lyrical, heartbreaking comedy of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire, \u003cem\u003eFirebird\u003c\/em\u003e is also a wry evocation of childhood's pleasures and terrors, a comic tour of American suburban life, and a testament to the transformative power of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoty, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003eFire to Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923891720466,"sku":"9780060931971","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_defc5b7c-b799-4124-8bfb-242e0186b2db.jpg?v=1738964114","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/firebird-a-memoir-9780060931971","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}