{"product_id":"9781101217696","title":"Please Excuse My Daughter","description":"A woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the exclusive WASP stronghold of Bedford, New York. Her mother was sharp, glamorous, and funny, but did not think that work was a woman's responsibility. Her father was fully supportive, not just of his wife's staying at home, but also of her extravagant lifestyle. Her mother's offbeat parenting style-taking Julie out of school to go to lunch at Bloomingdale's, for example-made her feel well-cared-for (and well-dressed) but left her unprepared for graduating and entering the real world. She had been brought up to look pretty and wait for a rich man to sweep her off her feet. But what happened if he never showed up? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Julie gets married to a hardworking but not wealthy man-one who expects her to be part of a modern couple and contribute financially to the marriage-she realizes how ambivalent and ill-equipped she is for life. Once she gives birth to a daughter, she knows she must grow up, get to work, and teach her child the self-reliance that she never learned. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelivered in an uproariously funny, sweet, self-effacing, and utterly memorable voice, Please Excuse My Daughter is a bighearted memoir from an irresistible new writer.","brand":"Penguin Group (USA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116418875632,"sku":"9781101217696","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101217696_p0.jpg?v=1763687021","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101217696","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}