{"product_id":"9780692965696","title":"Venture Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eI'm not famous. I'm certain of that. I'm not an unsung hero, with some secret significance that everyone needs but nobody knows. I haven't wrestled an alligator and lived to tell the tale, nor have I climbed Everest, ran for president, killed a man, or been trapped in a loveless marriage. All I've done is written a journal of thoughts. So, noteworthy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot me. I have the stories that are short as nice lawns and different flavors like jellybeans. Stories that plunge through each other like waves folding and crashing and pulling back again. I have them all strung out in a line like wet laundry hung to dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nice lawns and jellybeans and waves and laundry stories, my stories, who reads them? Nobody, really, not even me. I write them and keep them and never see them again. Someone will walk by my stories in the bookstore and see my name and wonder who I am. And they won't find me online and they won't find me anywhere but my stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy stories are all right here. My life and my laundry line are here. My autobiography of no one important.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVenture Home\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than a book about childhood or high school. It is the bittersweet story of three years, both moving and remarkable. In a unique blend of poetry and storytelling, innocence and learning, imagination and reality, S. E. Lauer tests the unbreakable line between having perfection and wanting it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S. E. Lauer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50038229663984,"sku":"9780692965696","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692965696_p0.jpg?v=1784241025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692965696","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}