{"product_id":"2940014477222","title":"BALD IN THE MERDE","description":"BALD IN THE MERDE is an illustrated adventure story about the art of wig buying in Provence. Laughing all the way. Available on Nook and others.  Soon to be a motion picture starring Susan Sarandon as the bewigged protagonist. Get your copy while they are still cheap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen French people are in dire circumstances, they tell you they are in \"La Merde\" (merde means poop). I was in France. In a small town. In chemotherapy. I was in deep Merde. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike French trains, right on schedule, 18 days after the first chemo treatment, my longish blonde hair began taking nightly hikes across the vast plains of my bedclothes, electing residence in messy clumps on the back of my couch and upholstering the jackets of all the friends on whose shoulders I was crying. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Get a wig!\" they clamored. \"Get yourself a wig.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Me? Ms. Authenticity. You want ME to wear a wig?\" I wailed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon, great white patches of skin all over my head glared through sparse tufts of what was left of my hair. I looked a sight. \"Okay\" I shrugged and sighed a mist of exasperation steam onto my looking glass. \"I'll get a wig.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI went into town to have my head shaved. But I ran into opposition from Jean, my hairdresser. He preferred to snip what was left of my hair to one short centimeter all over my head. Now a cover-up was urgent. I had to do something - and fast! I hurried on up to the local \"Capillary Institute\" to be fitted for a wig. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere, I met Danièle, the town wig monger. And that's when the fun began. \u003cbr\u003eDanièle was everything I feared in a person who sells wigs for chemo patients. Her giddy desire to see me topped by some kind of \"coiffure\" that pleased her (and not me) makes for quite a jolly tale. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHappy ending? Find out now. Download BALD IN THE MERDE and see for yourself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNB: BALD IN THE MERDE first appeared as a New York Times Sunday Magazine feature article on May 2, 2010","brand":"Suzanne White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177744679152,"sku":"2940014477222","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014477222_p0.jpg?v=1763609501","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014477222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}