{"product_id":"9781453512135","title":"Butterflies or Tigers: a Memoir","description":"Like the author herself, these improbable stories  \u003cbr\u003edefy classification. Culled from ninety-one years  \u003cbr\u003eof a rich and varied life, they begin with a vivid  \u003cbr\u003echildhood memory of a terrifying hurricane at sea,  \u003cbr\u003eduring her family's journey from Colombia to a  \u003cbr\u003enew life in the U.S. What follows is a series of  \u003cbr\u003edisparate tales that include:  \u003cbr\u003e•  Learning to cope with a free fall from suburban  \u003cbr\u003ecomfort in New Jersey to Great Depression rural  \u003cbr\u003epoverty in alligator-infested central Florida.  \u003cbr\u003e•  Having a mystical encounter in a sacred forest in  \u003cbr\u003eAssisi, Italy.  \u003cbr\u003e•  Being exposed to the subtleties of Earl Gray's tea,  \u003cbr\u003eViennese \"shtroodel,\" and \"Bead a Meyer\" furniture  \u003cbr\u003eby a sophisticated Hungarian neighbor.  \u003cbr\u003e•  Causing a sudden mysterious drop in the birthrate  \u003cbr\u003ein a Mexican fi shing village.  \u003cbr\u003e•  Being rescued by a French taxi driver from taking  \u003cbr\u003ea room in a Marseille port hotel popular with sailors  \u003cbr\u003eand their ladies of the night.  \u003cbr\u003e•  Enduring a hilarious seniors-only white-water rafting  \u003cbr\u003etrip on the Rogue River in Oregon.  \u003cbr\u003e•  Finding herself stark naked in a rehabilitation  \u003cbr\u003ecenter shower with a rapt audience of two  \u003cbr\u003eattendants and a TV repair man.  \u003cbr\u003eThrough these and other experiences and  \u003cbr\u003eadventures spanning ninety-one years, Liza Tilson  \u003cbr\u003eopens her heart, shares the good and the bad,  \u003cbr\u003ethe funny and sad, and shows what it means to  \u003cbr\u003eembrace life and live it fully.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181064339696,"sku":"9781453512135","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453512135_p0.jpg?v=1763850446","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453512135","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}