{"product_id":"nothing-new-just-better-lighting-jason-ramshaw-9798255373178","title":"Nothing New, Just Better Lighting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrowing up is just childhood with a different résumé.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eA Perfectly Normal Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e comes a sharp, funny, uncomfortably honest collection of essays about the person you were - and the person you still are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Ramshaw ran magic shows out of his basement. Charged admission. Controlled the lighting. He was ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time he was selling draft beer at the Ritz-Carlton, moving cookware to people who didn't cook, and performing nightly at a steakhouse where the real show happened in forty-minute intervals downstairs - the pattern was obvious to everyone except him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNothing New, Just Better Lighting\u003c\/b\u003e picks up where \u003ci\u003eA Perfectly Normal Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e left off. Except now the tricks have titles. The haunted house has a lease. And the kid who always had to run the room is starting to notice that the room never actually changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese fourteen essays move from childhood performances to boardroom instincts, from a couch where everything finally stopped to a bee colony that cooperated better than most companies - and didn't survive either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Ramshaw catalogs a life spent confusing: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEffort for identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharm for connection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMotion for progress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo lessons. No redemption arc.\u003c\/b\u003e Just evidence, stacked cleanly, under better lighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of David Sedaris, Sloane Crosley, Samantha Irby, and anyone who has ever suspected that growing up is just childhood with a different résumé.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Two of the Still Noticing trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e Book One: \u003ci\u003eA Perfectly Normal Childhood (and Other Lies I Tell Myself)\u003c\/i\u003e - available now. Book Three: \u003ci\u003eBefore Anyone Says Anything\u003c\/i\u003e - available now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Ramshaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255373178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Jason Ramshaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084236824831,"sku":"9798255373178","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nothing-new-just-better-lighting-jason-ramshaw-9798255373178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}