{"product_id":"half-a-life-a-memoir-9780385488914","title":"Half a Life: A Memoir","description":"By turns comic, tragic, and heartrending, \"Half a Life\" is a bold, unsentimental portrait of the artist as a girl from nowhere, making herself up from scratch, acting up, and finally overcoming the consequences of being the child of a father incapable of love and responsibility. \"Tender, unsentimental, and filled with moments of contagious joy and heartbreak, her 'half a life' is more than most people experience in a lifetime\".--\"Publishers Weekly\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJill Ciment is the author of Small Claims and The Law of Falling Bodies, which \u003cb\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e called \"a radiant first novel...keenly observed and beautifully written.\" She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Rutgers University and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604193644818,"sku":"9780385488914","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0229cff3-e8dc-40cf-b615-861187e97116.jpg?v=1732256673","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/half-a-life-a-memoir-9780385488914","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}