{"product_id":"how-i-got-to-cleveland-karen-williams-9798218937317","title":"How I Got to Cleveland","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive short stories of Americana: An 18-year-old's eye-opening road trip in the early 70's. An artist stuck in a low-wage job at a movie house as the punk rock era kicks off in San Francisco. A New York City high school teacher gets to know a FDNY fireman post 9\/11. A Midwest Boomer coming-of-age diary. And a comic monolog about death. Memoir-like stories of fear, vulnerability, sexism, moral ambivalence, illusion \u0026amp; delusion-life experiences of contemporary women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jack Kerouac's \u003cem\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/em\u003e was a bible... \u003cem\u003eHow I Got to Cleveland\u003c\/em\u003e makes the same journey through the eyes of a young woman. Although the story may be about one person, we can imagine many women to have traveled a similar road.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Gregg Wilson, Back Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow I Got to Cleveland, \u003c\/em\u003e follows a circuitous and emotionally desolate path that covers ground from Little Rock to Cleveland... from affection, hopelessness to embarrassment.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-David Lyman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"I loved \u003cem\u003eCleveland\u003c\/em\u003e ...a contribution to the literature of bizarre journals.\" -Eric Bogosian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Writer Karen Williams takes us down two dazzling different roads: one illuminated by stark experience and a dead-end road of blunted emotion ... intimate performances that flash and burn like sparks from a blowtorch.\" -David Fischer, The Seattle Fringe Festival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdult Fiction, Memoir-like adventures of women of various generations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218937317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kindness, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Karen Williams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48440700141823,"sku":"9798218937317","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c70ab4d-7ae7-4263-a77d-7466c453a0b1.jpg?v=1777184220","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-i-got-to-cleveland-karen-williams-9798218937317","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}