{"product_id":"2940154597651","title":"Sleight of the Invisible Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot even twenty-four hours removed from a two-week long inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, at just 23-years-old, a brilliant young marketing executive Patricia Maybach finds herself upended, jobless, shunned by her peers, and mortifyingly embarrassed following six months of reckless spending, hyper-sexuality, and a devastatingly public psychotic break from reality. A catastrophic break that tricked Patty into believing that she, and she alone, was destined to save the world. With a slippery bipolar diagnosis newly stamped on her forehead, not a single personal or professional out, there was but one option for Patty Maybach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter the good shepherd’s of hope, and purveyors of light, By The Way, Inc. Billed as a first of its kind, for-profit enterprising mental health recovery model, based in the high country of southwestern Colorado, occupying over Forty THOUSAND acres of land, the thoughtful leadership team at By The Way, Inc. was devised to Harness the inherent Brilliance that ruminates within the young manic minds of the sufferers of mental illnesses, turning that brain trust into hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth for their company and shareholders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other outs and not a soul to lean on, Ms. Maybach boards a plane, first class ticket in hand and sets off from LaGuardia to Denver International where her weeklong baseline orientation in the program ensues. She quickly realizes that opulence and grandeur at By The Way, Inc. come a discount, where innovation and ingenuity are valued at a premium. Expectations run high and things aren’t always what they seem as the stockpiles of wealth created by her new employer don’t appear to add up to par.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease, join us on this comically uplifting and entertaining ride, rich with dynamic character dialogue, and packed deep with unexpected plot twists and turns. By The Way, Inc. is the Great Gatsby meets One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest, and in this fish out of water, first person narrative, the reader will follow that fateful first week of employment through Patty’s eyes, as she comes to terms with her own illness, the limitations beset within, in her consummate search for answers and truth as she yearns to solve that age old conundrum that’s spanned generations of human life: how does one “save a world” so tragically adverse to being saved…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ellie Cambridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172116152560,"sku":"2940154597651","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154597651_p0.jpg?v=1764086714","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154597651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}