{"product_id":"9780982015117","title":"Some Things That Meant the World to Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e#8 of 10 Terrific Reads of 2009.\u003c\/i\u003e \"Charles Bukowski will dig the grit in this seedy novel, a poetic rendering of postmodern San Francisco.\" -O, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Best Book of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e -The Nervous Breakdown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Where Michel Gondry would go if he went down a few too many miles of bad desert road.\" -The Collagist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mohr's prose roams with chimerical liquidity. The magic of this book is a disturbing, hallucinogenic magic.\" -Boston's Weekly Dig\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a 30-year-old man named Rhonda suffering from depersonalization, \u003ci\u003eSome Things That Meant the World to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a gritty and beautiful work that is creative and hypnotic, and should stand as an introduction of an original new voice to American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Rhonda was a child — abandoned and ignored by his mother; abused and misguided by his mother's boyfriend — he imagined the rooms of his home drifting apart from one another like separating continents. Years later, after an embarassing episode as an adult, Rhonda's inner-child appears, leading him to a trapdoor in the bottom of a dumpster behind a taqueria that will force him to finally confront his troubled past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of \u003ci\u003eCruddy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHairstyles of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, Joshua Mohr has created a remarkable and unforgettable character in this charmingly poetic and maturely crafted first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Mohr\u003c\/b\u003e has been published in \u003ci\u003eOther Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at a halfway house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019277615344,"sku":"9780982015117","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982015117_p0.jpg?v=1763887602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982015117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}