{"product_id":"2940150357969","title":"An Ocean in Iowa","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA funny, bittersweet exploration of how a child can change in one short year of love, loss, and growing up...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be \"his year.\" But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the family--leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year is torn apart (falls apart?), Scotty begins to act out during school and takes a series of increasingly wild actions to try to win his mother back--and, when that doesn't work, to replace her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFunny and deeply affecting, \u003ci\u003eAn Ocean in Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e traces Scotty's desperate attempt to hold on to his childhood while the foundation of his family disintegrates. As Scotty's year as a seven-year-old flies by--and the dreaded eight approaches--Hedges explores how Scotty sheds his childhood in a one-eighty of the year he hoped would be so perfect. Beautifully written, and with Hedges's careful attention to period detail, this compelling coming-of-age novel sets the private turmoil of a disintegrating family against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the turbulent 1960s.","brand":"RosettaBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101762601200,"sku":"2940150357969","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150357969_p0.jpg?v=1763743667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150357969","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}