{"product_id":"9781491776186","title":"My Friend Casey","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter moving from town to town, Philip Nason and his family finally settle in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit. It’s the summer of 1937, shortly after Philip turns eleven. A lonely child, he inhabits a world of daydreams, filling notebooks with his cartoon fantasies. He discovers he’s unable to compete in the rough-and-tumble games that are a boy’s rite of passage.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThen Philip meets Jeremiah Casey—bigger, older, stronger, better at games than everyone else, but somehow isolated by his exceptional abilities. In Philip, Casey finds a fellow dreamer and artist. Together, they try to make an animated movie, send cartoons to syndicates, and finally produce a neighborhood newspaper. As they attempt to join the ranks of Al Capp and other famous cartoonists, their aspirations conflict with the upheavals of sexual awakening, the pressures of working-class life, and the coming of World War II. The dreams of Philip survive, but those of his older friend and hero do not.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Friend Casey\u003c\/i\u003e evokes a lost time and place and traces, along a darkening landscape, the path of what may have been the last surge of American optimism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166191960304,"sku":"9781491776186","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491776186_p0.jpg?v=1763659836","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491776186","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}