{"product_id":"what-just-happened-barbara-baillet-moran-9780578875910","title":"What Just Happened: Stories in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What Just Happened\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic chronicle of a life richly lived.\" -Keith Cushman, author of \u003ci\u003eD. H. Lawrence at Work.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Just Happened, \u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Baillet Moran's first collection of poetry and stories in verse, offers a flavorful blend of tales that reveal a well-seasoned life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning during World War II and winding through arduous decades to the present day, Moran recalls images from an observant childhood and adolescent awakenings. Her recollections about marriage and motherhood are provocative and comic, as are memories of the many unique individuals she met during a quarter-century of entertaining guests on two university campuses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoran plays with language-puns, rhymes, alliteration, and invented words. A chapter called \"Not Just About the Food\" is a banquet of responses to food: the poetic essence of Soup, seductive nature of the orange, nobility of the lemon, tang of Moroccan sumac, and tart joys of cranberries. The \"strenuosity,\" over many years, of preparing 47,000 meals-with relish!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWry humor enlivens inauspicious events. Mending and fending-strangers intrude, rambunctious children bristle with mischief, spousal wit converts vexation into vaudeville.\u003c\/p\u003eBy no means are the stories all cheerful. The grave plight of humans is accompanied by tales of courage: a young friend pilots helicopter rescue missions in Afghanistan, children flee burning villages in Sudan, an elderly waitress makes her way through the day.\u003cp\u003ePoignant reflections in later life bring this robust collection to a serene and satisfying conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Baillet Moran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578875918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578875910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bonventura Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Barbara Baillet Moran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966421004543,"sku":"9780578875910","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6172f7c-f0fc-4ebd-b47a-0f58d0ec2d46.jpg?v=1711159802","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-just-happened-barbara-baillet-moran-9780578875910","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}