{"product_id":"2940158448416","title":"Wondahful Mammaries","description":"When is the last time you asked your young children to: \u003cbr\u003e... jump from a moving train in Thailand? \u003cbr\u003e... return human remains to a cave on Okinawa? \u003cbr\u003e... understand when given a dying infant in Bangkok? \u003cbr\u003e... weather a leper assault in Djarkarta? \u003cbr\u003e... survive a typhoon on Okinawa? \u003cbr\u003e... visit a slum-dweller in Hong Kong? \u003cbr\u003e... live without water, electricity, phone, mail, friends, food, and family in Bali? \u003cbr\u003e... persevere when purposely flooded in Java? \u003cbr\u003e... deal with racial issues in Australia? \u003cbr\u003e... see a witch doctor for medical treatment in Bali? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e... and to do it all with a smile on your face, and a jig in your step? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of a mother's devotion, unrelenting determination, sweeping geography, uproarious quirkiness, and deep heartbreak, this is the true adventure of a young, gutsy, Minnesota mother's nearly 30 years on the far side of the earth in the 1970s. A page turner of the first order be prepared to lose sleep, forget about housework, ignore guests and neglect children as you go from slapping your knee in wild abandon one moment, to weeping your heart out in the next. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does a consummate mother of three young children do when left on her own because her husband is always on intelligence missions? She becomes a personality on Japanese T.V., a lecturer and teacher throughout Japan, and when those are not enough, she puts her home in storage and by herself takes her children on a nail-biting years' odyssey from Okinawa to Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Tokyo. (And here you thought going to Yellowstone -- with your hubby! -- was a big deal!) And do not, for one moment, think they traveled in luxury. Instead, they squeezed out a life from duffel bags and with enormous doses chutzpah!","brand":"Peggy Keener","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122929713392,"sku":"2940158448416","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158448416_p0.jpg?v=1764112983","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158448416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}