{"product_id":"joy-is-my-middle-name-sasha-debevec-mckenney-9781324110675","title":"Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eJoy Is My Middle Name\u003c\/em\u003e documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism, and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe--the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner. Full of stories, character, awkward silence, relatable sentiment; the buzz of perfect moments are funneled onto the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Granny was only 18 when she had my father, and decided to leave\u003cbr\u003e Virginia, but in a book they'd call that the Great Migration.\u003cbr\u003e She was supposed to get off the train in New York City\u003cbr\u003e but it scared her too much. It was too loud. So we grew up\u003cbr\u003e in Connecticut instead. Sometimes history is as simple as that.\u003cbr\u003e --from \"John Brown's Birthplace\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sasha Debevec-McKenney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324110678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324110675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sasha Debevec-McKenney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46384104898815,"sku":"9781324110675","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e8347c6-378f-41c3-b206-2a7cde620a4e.jpg?v=1733282714","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joy-is-my-middle-name-sasha-debevec-mckenney-9781324110675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}