{"product_id":"mis-fits-anonymous-mr-e-9781640968509","title":"Mis-Fits Anonymous","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an attempt to reenergize his practice, a mild-mannered, blandly ineffectual psychologist organizes an anonymous peer-counseling self-help group that is haphazardly attended by seven divergent strangers--a punk rocker, a teenaged prostitute, a DMV examiner, a food critic, a judge, a priest, and a little old lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the story unfolds in a series of meetings and the motivation of each member to seek group therapy becomes clear, we learn that the punk rocker, a gentle, clumsy dufus, is less than a party animal; that the prostitute, for all of her volatile, angry street smarts, is a virgin; that the driving examiner is on the edge of a job-induced nervous collapse; that the food critic, an amiable four-hundred pounder, cannot criticize anything; that the judge, a meek and mousey public defender until her recent promotion to a judgeship, cannot seem to make her mind up about anything; that the priest, old and acidically embittered, has lost his faith; and that the little old lady is lost in a doddering reverie that shrouds her very being in a fog-like time warp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the various conflicts and challenges facing each member gain volition through their group interactions, culminating in a field trip retreat to the countryside, a further twist develops, involving the seemingly inept doctor himself, one that would potentially undermine what little progress the members have made thus far and derail their group altogether.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story was originally inspired by the comedy of Bob Newhart, in particular, his 1970s television sitcom \u003cem\u003eThe Bob Newhart Show\u003c\/em\u003e, and in many ways is a tribute to this comedian and to this program and, in a larger sense, to the offbeat and abstract profundities of dry humor and the ironies of the human psyche. It is a mostly humorous, poignant story of surviving life, intended to inspire laughter, commiseration, and hope for the underdogs, the has-beens, the losers, and the lost, in a world in which being unbalanced can actually turn out to be the key to staying sane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e MR E\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1640968504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640968509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Newman Springs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.21d","brand":"MR E","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132526883071,"sku":"9781640968509","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_abcc4209-d895-4c6b-a024-5344731b721c.jpg?v=1687480730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mis-fits-anonymous-mr-e-9781640968509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}