{"product_id":"the-magic-of-found-objects-9781542021517","title":"The Magic of Found Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMatchmaking for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e comes a feel-good story about becoming who you were meant to be all along.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer's son and was born with magical wonder flickering in her DNA and rationality knit into her bones. All her life she's been torn between the two. But now that she's been betrayed by both love and the mother she once idolized, her rational side is winning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when her best friend from childhood proposes that they give up on romance and marry each other, Phronsie agrees. Who better to spend your life with than your best friend? Maybe the connection they already have \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e love. Maybe there's no \u003ci\u003efalling\u003c\/i\u003e to be done. But immediately after they announce their engagement, she encounters someone who makes a very charming and compelling argument for revisiting romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile her even-keeled stepmother argues for the safety that comes with her new engagement and her mother relays messages from the universe to hold out for true love, Phronsie must look to her own heart to find the answers that have been there all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDawson, Maddie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMaddie Dawson grew up in the South, born into a family of outrageous storytellers. Her various careers as a substitute English teacher, department-store clerk, medical-records typist, waitress, cat sitter, wedding-invitation-company receptionist, nanny, day care worker, electrocardiogram technician, and Taco Bell taco maker were made bearable by thinking up stories as she worked. Today Maddie lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with her husband. She's the bestselling author of seven previous novels: \u003ci\u003eA Happy Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatchmaking for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Opposite of Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stuff That Never Happened\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKissing Games of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Piece of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e. For more information visit www.maddiedawson.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lake Union Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482297307410,"sku":"9781542021517","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e06a5376-d999-4ac7-85f6-815409167a92.jpg?v=1730342387","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-magic-of-found-objects-9781542021517","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}