{"product_id":"life-is-funny-9780142300831","title":"Life Is Funny","description":"From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good Muslim girl in a foreign America. Gingerbread and Keisha, who fall in love despite themselves. \u003ci\u003eLife Is Funny\u003c\/i\u003e strips away the defenses of one group of teenagers living today, right now-and shows their unbearably real lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"First novelist Frank breaks new ground with a realistic, lyrical novel about eleven teens in Brooklyn now . . . Their talk is painful, rough, sexy, funny, fearful, furious, gentle. Each chapter, each vignette within a chapter, builds to its own climax, and the stories weave together to surprise you.\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An astounding first effort.\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, pointer review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. R. Frank\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, psychotherapist, and social worker. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Frank attended Vassar College, Hunter Graduate School of Social Work, and New York's Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She is the author of five novels: \u003ci\u003e Life Is Funny, Dime, America, Wrecked, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Friction.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Young Readers Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409718251794,"sku":"9780142300831","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_570e84c5-a607-4385-b997-b2ea62f4eb80.jpg?v=1729292807","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/life-is-funny-9780142300831","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}