{"product_id":"truth-or-consequences-improbable-adventures-a-near-death-experience-and-unexpected-redemption-in-the-new-mexico-desert-9780826367389","title":"Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan's lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He's certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTruth or Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving true story of hope and redemption. It is a funny, deeply felt rumination on aging, misadventure, and the serendipity of second chances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRose, Daniel Asa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Daniel Asa Rose won an O. Henry Prize and two PEN Fiction Awards for the stories in his first collection, \u003ci\u003eSmall Family with Rooster\u003c\/i\u003e. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eFlipping for It\u003c\/i\u003e, a black comedy about divorce, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e New and Noteworthy Paperback. Daniel is also the author of \u003ci\u003eHiding Places\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of how he took his young sons to Belgium to retrace their family's escape from the Holocaust. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eLarry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life\u003c\/i\u003e, was named one of the Top Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. Daniel lives in Connecticut.","brand":"High Road Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552838811922,"sku":"9780826367389","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62906dab-0aca-4001-a889-841ae8a64dbb.jpg?v=1754907440","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/truth-or-consequences-improbable-adventures-a-near-death-experience-and-unexpected-redemption-in-the-new-mexico-desert-9780826367389","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}