{"product_id":"9780395957899","title":"Suits Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden, five successive \"wives\" with whom Billy lived as a man, and three children who he \"fathered.\" As Billy Tipton herself said, \"Some people might think I'm a freak or a hermaphrodite. I'm not. I'm a normal person. This has been my choice.\" This jazz-era biography evokes the rich popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025144201456,"sku":"9780395957899","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780395957899_p0.jpg?v=1763698104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780395957899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}