{"product_id":"2940011834899","title":"Middle Aged American Tao","description":"A novel of our times. Riddled as all our lives are with menial tasks and purposeless drives, this tale casts a different light upon our reasons. Aside from the cheating wives, self-crippling Adonis, urine-phobic land baron, outpatient psych patients next door, erotic endeavors, and a drug addicted son tied up in the basement, this is a story about Alex. Recently early retired, he wakes one morning from a dream of developing a new Tai Chi form, and from that moment on everything in his life changes. Each morning before dawn he wanders down to the bay to stand silently awaiting the first intuition of movement. Instead, broken elements of his past converge like whirlwinds into the perfect storm. Is life bringing these things together for him to interpret into a form? Is the form bringing his knots and kinks, like stiff muscles, together for him to process and move on? Patterns set up from early childhood loom. With years of Taoism and Tai Chi experience, we perceive through Alex a fresh take on the madness of our lives, and silliness of our convictions. A great story laced with subtle wisdom only time and experience can convey.","brand":"scavinold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080838791408,"sku":"2940011834899","price":3.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011834899_p0.jpg?v=1763550288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011834899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}