{"product_id":"9781440626630","title":"Missing Men: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award – an “intricate and compelling” (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir that chronicles her childhood and her two ill-fated marriages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Johnson’s classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e, was one of the initiators of an important new genre: the personal story of a minor player on history’s stage. In \u003ci\u003eMissing Men\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir that tells her mother’s story as well as her own, Johnson constructs an equally unique self-portrait as she examines, from a woman’s perspective, the far-reaching reverberations of fatherlessness. Telling a story that has \"shaped itself around absences,\" \u003ci\u003eMissing Men\u003c\/i\u003e presents us with the arc and flavor of a unique New York life—from the author’s adventures as a Broadway stage child to her fateful encounters with the two fatherless artists she marries. Joyce Johnson’s voice has never been more compelling.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154745278704,"sku":"9781440626630","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440626630_p0.jpg?v=1763787570","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440626630","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}