{"product_id":"9780060931971","title":"Firebird: A Memoir","description":"In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's \"Get Happy\" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, \"Son, you're a boy!\"\u003cp\u003e Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One. A self-confessed \"chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent,\" Doty grew up on the move, the family following his father's engineering work across America -- from Tennessee to Arizona, Florida to California. A lyrical, heartbreaking comedy of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire, Firebird is also a wry evocation of childhood's pleasures and terrors, a comic tour of American suburban life, and a testament to the transformative power of art.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007910756592,"sku":"9780060931971","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060931971_p0.jpg?v=1763620130","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060931971","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}