{"product_id":"gotham-girl-interrupted-alisa-kennedy-jones-9781623545345","title":"Gotham Girl Interrupted: My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love, and Epilepsy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey and Jenny Lawson, \u003cem\u003eGotham Girl Interrupted\u003c\/em\u003e offers a hilarious, heartfelt, and fiercely candid memoir about life as a hapless writer, single parent, impassioned city girl, and epileptic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Smart, harrowing, heart-warming, and very funny.\" --James Patterson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down, \u003cem\u003eGotham Girl Interrupted\u003c\/em\u003e is loaded with brash truths and laugh-out-loud moments about the epileptic age and culture in which we all live. It's also a dispatch from the frontlines of neurodiversity. Above all, it's about the battle for becoming who you are supposed to be and finding your tribe--no matter how much flopping around on the ground and wetting yourself you have to do to get there.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With wit and humility, Alisa Kennedy Jones chronicles her experiences after a diagnosis of ecstatic epilepsy (also suffered by Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Agatha Christie). Beginning with the first in a series of terrifying yet beautiful grand mal seizures, which she likens to \"swallowing a bolt of lightning,\" each seizure leaves her with what Zen Buddhists sometimes refer to as a \"beginner's mind\"--a vast, open expanse of headspace, coupled with a creative euphoria. It's a state that renders you less encumbered by everything you've already learned, but also challenged by having to relearn some of the more basic aspects of daily life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alisa Kennedy Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162354534X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623545345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlesbridge Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Alisa Kennedy Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43984685105407,"sku":"9781623545345","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e855ee25-d284-4e08-8a95-547acba388b5.jpg?v=1683273672","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gotham-girl-interrupted-alisa-kennedy-jones-9781623545345","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}