{"product_id":"9780983092865","title":"How Fargo of You: True Stories from a Place Stranger than Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemoir from Marc de Celle of his family's first five years in Fargo. Having always lived in either Arizona, California or Florida, Fargo was a big change -- but the biggest shock wasn't the climate, it was the culture. The locals frequently left de Celle speechless, until he finally figured out what to say: \"Oh. How Fargo of You.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI had no burning desire to visit Fargo. But my wife, Charlene, had decided we were going. Her best friend Melody, who I liked very much and our kids adored, now lived in Fargo. So we came. It was the summer of 2001 and we were on vacation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur lives would never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil then, all I knew of Fargo, other than the fact that my wife’s best friend had moved here, was that a movie with dumb criminals and people talking in goofy accents had been titled after it. Oh, and it got really, \u003cem\u003ereally\u003c\/em\u003e cold....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat was all I knew of Fargo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo our first visit, nearly a quarter of a century later, held many pleasant surprises. No dumb criminals – in fact, about the lowest crime rate in the country. No goofy accents, don’cha know. Great weather (we came in June). And a much bigger surprise, as you’ll read in Chapter One...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"How Fargo of You","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021039157488,"sku":"9780983092865","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983092865_p0.jpg?v=1763893084","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983092865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}