{"product_id":"wild-life-keena-roberts-9781538745151","title":"Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eMean Girls\u003c\/i\u003e in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a \"baboon camp\" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKeena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy.\u003cbr\u003eMost girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Keena's funny, tender memoir, \u003ci\u003eWild Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keena Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1538745151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781538745151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2019 pg. 14","brand":"Keena Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043947213055,"sku":"9781538745151","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4847c2c-b31c-45d6-b0f7-eefcd092be5c.jpg?v=1684970040","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-life-keena-roberts-9781538745151","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}