{"product_id":"9780971550001","title":"Rowena Gets a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003ePost-college, pre-marriage, Rowena tries to establish an adult life despite   her family's attempts to help. Her marriage-crazed mother bugs her about   catching a man, her sports-obsessed father bugs her about catching the game, and   her movie-star-wannabe sister bugs her about the New Age. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOn an impulse trip to the zoo she meets a surprisingly nice young man in   front of a cage full of enraged lemurs. Her mother steals his phone number and   implores him to call her, but he asks her out anyway. Bidden to bring him to   dinner with her family, Rowena must watch him face her mother's eagerness, her   sister's flirting, her sister's boyfriend's crude remarks, and her father's   24-hour sports channel. Taken to meet his mother, she must face her own feelings   of awkwardness, and the realization that this relationship isn't something she   wants to spoil. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNow all she has to do is develop that relationship without her familiy   driving him away or her crazy . . . and get what she really wants: A life of her   own. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHer co-workers are crazy, her sister's an Astrology junkie, and her mother .   . . . \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFollow the title character through fifty-two short stories of assorted   aggravations and triumphs as she tries to create and maintain a self and a life   despite the sometimes conflicting--and often funny--demands of job, family, and   her own heart, doing her best to keep a sense of humor while discovering what it   is to be a modern, independent young woman--as well as a friend, a lover, a   sister, and a daughter. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Youngren, S.D.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029401190640,"sku":"9780971550001","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780971550001_p0.gif?v=1763871222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780971550001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}