{"product_id":"things-i-should-have-told-my-daughter-lies-lessons-love-affairs-9781451664706","title":"Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons \u0026 Love Affairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this inspiring memoir--that Jane Fonda raves \"will make you braver...want to live your life better and make a difference\"--the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day\u003c\/i\u003e reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while working to hone her craft as a writer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore she become one of America's most popular playwrights and a bestselling author with a novel endorsed by Oprah's Book Club, Pearl Cleage was a struggling writer going through personal and professional turmoil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThings I Should Have Told My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, Cleage takes us back to the 1970s and 80s, when she was a young wife and mother trying to find her voice as a writer. Living in Atlanta, she worked alongside Maynard Jackson, the city's first black mayor and it was here among fraught politics that she began to feel the pull of her own dreams--a pull that led her away from her husband as she grappled with ideas of feminism and self-fulfillment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the tradition of literary giants such as Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, and Maya Angelou, Cleage crafts an illuminating and moving self-portrait in which her \"extraordinary experiences, deep social concerns, passionate self-analysis, and personal and artistic liberation, all so openly confided, make for a highly charged, redefining read\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleage, Pearl:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Pearl Cleage is an award-winning playwright whose play \u003ci\u003eFlyin' West\u003c\/i\u003e was the most-produced new play in the country in 1994 and a bestselling author whose novels include \u003ci\u003eWhat Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Wish I Had a Red Dress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSome Things I Never Thought I'd Do\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBaby Brother's Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566524764434,"sku":"9781451664706","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e071137-6c90-45b0-8746-86de814095b7.jpg?v=1731901154","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/things-i-should-have-told-my-daughter-lies-lessons-love-affairs-9781451664706","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}