{"product_id":"in-the-key-of-new-york-city-a-memoir-in-essays-9781597098502","title":"In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conversations on park benches, songs and cries sifted through apartment walls, and in encounters with street people dispensing unexpected wisdom. Having uprooted their settled lives in North Carolina to pursue a long-held dream of living in Manhattan, she and her husband struggle to find jobs, forge friendships, and create a home in a city of strangers. The 9\/11 attacks and a serious cancer surgery complicate their story, merging the public with the private, the present with the past, to shape a journey richer than either could have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcClanahan, Rebecca:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca McClanahan\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of ten books, has received two Pushcart Prizes, the Glasgow Award in nonfiction, the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from \u003cem\u003ePoetry \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, and four fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the\u003cem\u003e Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the\u003cem\u003e Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, and in anthologies published by Doubleday, Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, Norton, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bedford\/St. Martin's, and numerous others. She teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop and lives with her husband, video producer Donald Devet, in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50505376563474,"sku":"9781597098502","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_877df343-6801-4753-8511-a2e097a7812e.jpg?v=1730838985","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-key-of-new-york-city-a-memoir-in-essays-9781597098502","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}