{"product_id":"9781450081016","title":"Crumpled with Love","description":"Having moved extensively throughout her early  \u003cbr\u003echildhood, Robin learned to accept change,  \u003cbr\u003ebut her secret desire was for consistency in her  \u003cbr\u003elife. At the age of twenty-four, deeply in love,  \u003cbr\u003eshe fi nally found the consistency and love she  \u003cbr\u003ehad always hoped for. She was content with  \u003cbr\u003emarried life and motherhood, but it did not  \u003cbr\u003elast when Robin's happily ever after turned  \u003cbr\u003einto confusion and despair sixteen years later.  \u003cbr\u003eWith their children growing up and pulling  \u003cbr\u003eaway, Robin found that the husband she could  \u003cbr\u003ealways turn to was no longer emotionally  \u003cbr\u003eavailable to her. Eight years later, she realized  \u003cbr\u003ethe marriage was over and fi led for divorce.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWriting became an outlet and a tool for Robin while working through  \u003cbr\u003ethe questions, anger, and heartache that fi lled her life. When she started  \u003cbr\u003ecompiling her poems and essays in chronological order, she realized that  \u003cbr\u003eothers probably went through what she had been going through after the  \u003cbr\u003eloss of a loved one. Robin began to see that her poems and essays might  \u003cbr\u003ehelp others and encourage them to fi nd ways to work through the pain and  \u003cbr\u003edisappointments in their lives.  \u003cbr\u003eShe continued to write, painting a picture of her emotional journey from  \u003cbr\u003ehappily ever after to recovery from divorce. Come along with Robin on this  \u003cbr\u003ejourney of love, rejection, anger, grief, and recovery, and you will read of the  \u003cbr\u003econtrasts of love, longing to reconnect, meditation and spiritual awakening,  \u003cbr\u003ethe ecstasy of sex, love and appreciation for family, religious disillusionment,  \u003cbr\u003eand even forbidden love.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123982352624,"sku":"9781450081016","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450081016_p0.jpg?v=1763836869","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450081016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}