{"product_id":"9781940430102","title":"Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays","description":"In these insightful, compassionate, gutsy, and heartbreaking personal essays, Stielstra, whose essay “Channel B” was recently featured in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2013\u003c\/i\u003e edited by Cheryl Strayed, explores the messy, maddening beauty of adulthood with wit, intelligence, and biting humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eOnce I Was Cool\u003c\/i\u003e tackle topics ranging from beating postpartum depression by stalking her neighbor, to a surprise run-in with an old lover while on ecstasy, to blowing her mortgage on a condo she bought because of Jane's Addiction. Or, said another way, they tackle life in all of its quotidian richness.","brand":"Curbside Splendor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137263386864,"sku":"9781940430102","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940430102_p0.jpg?v=1763668092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940430102","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}