{"product_id":"9780375401565","title":"The Lunch-Box Chronicles: Notes from the Parenting Underground","description":" \u003ci\u003eChild\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For me, parenting is like dieting.  Every day, I wake up filled with resolve and good intentions, perfection in view, and every day I somehow stray from the path.  The difference is with dieting, I usually make it to lunch. . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the candor and often hilarious outlook that have made her a beloved commentator on NPR, Marion Winik takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through modern parenthood, with all of its attendant anxieties and joys.\u003cbr\u003e        A single mother with two small boys, Winik knows exactly what she's talking about, from battles over breakfast and bedtime to the virtues of pre-packaged food and weightier issues like sex education and sibling rivalry. Part memoir and part survival guide, \u003ci\u003eThe Lunch-Box Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging philosophy of parenting from a staunch realist, who knows that kids and their parents both will inevitably fall far short of perfection, and that a \"good enough mom\" really is, in fact, good enough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Marion Winik proves as able a bard for her generation as Erma Bombeck was for hers. . . . Funny, warmhearted, and chock-full of moments of instant recognition.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[H]ilarious and wrenching, it's about being a parent, but it's also about so much more: love, survival, transcendence—and macaroni and cheese.\" —Anne Lamott, author of \u003ci\u003eOperating Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Take Erma Bombeck, add the obsessions of a single mother with two boys . . . and you have Marion Winik, as companionable a writer as a crazed parent ever found.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e  ","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024977674480,"sku":"9780375401565","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375401565_p0.gif?v=1763691311","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375401565","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}