{"product_id":"our-imaginary-childhood-sara-watson-9798888381861","title":"Our Imaginary Childhood","description":"\u003cem\u003eOur Imaginary Childhood, \u003c\/em\u003e Sara Watson's vivid new chapbook, takes on the task of narrating childhood through the offbeat, precocious voices of eleven siblings growing up helter-skelter. The mother and father drink and \"spend whole days in bed.\" \"They love us, but they have headaches,\" the unnamed central narrator says, and later adds, \"Every family needs a storyteller, otherwise the family is a secret.\" The slow reveal of this family' secret pries open the brief, compact form of the chapbook. The ending of \u003cem\u003eOUR IMAGINARY CHILDHOOD\u003c\/em\u003e is worthy of a novella. This is a very poignant and intelligent debut.\u003cstrong\u003e-Lynn Emanuel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe magic of Sara Watson's \u003cem\u003eOur Imaginary Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e collects in coffee cans, dirty spoons, crows' nests, and graveyards. This is a family ghost story where the ghosts are alive, playing house or playing dead in a home filled with love and haunted by alcoholism. But in the mailbox or under a rock or beneath a tree there is always a secret password, a key to the kingdom of hazy orange kid dreams. Each of these prose poems is a tiny wonder.\u003cstrong\u003e-Rochelle Hurt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8888381864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888381861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.09d","brand":"Sara Watson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44583943209215,"sku":"9798888381861","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85013b63-d49a-4663-8c49-1db9887d740b.jpg?v=1701884398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/our-imaginary-childhood-sara-watson-9798888381861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}