{"product_id":"9780393246483","title":"All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his debut \u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the age of twenty-three, Connors was a young man on the make. He'd left behind the Minnesota pig farm on which he'd grown up and the brother with whom he'd never been especially close. He had a magazine job lined up in New York City and a future unfolding exactly as he’d hoped. Then one phone call out of the blue changed everything. \u003cem\u003eAll the Wrong Places\u003c\/em\u003e is a searingly honest account of the aftermath of his brother's shocking death, exploring both the pathos and the unlikely humor of a life unmoored by loss.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning with the otherworldly beauty of a hot-air-balloon ride over the skies of Albuquerque and ending in the wilderness of the American borderlands, this is the story of a man paying tribute to the dead by unconsciously willing himself into all the wrong places, whether at the copy desk of the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the gritty streets of Bed-Stuy in the 1990s, or the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. With ruthless clarity and a keen sense of the absurd, Connors slowly unmasks the truth about his brother and himself, to devastating effect. Like Cheryl Strayed's \u003cem\u003eWild\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a powerful look back at wayward years—and a redemptive story about finding one's rightful home in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077813846256,"sku":"9780393246483","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393246483_p0.jpg?v=1763696846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393246483","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}