{"product_id":"gotham-girl-interrupted-my-misadventures-in-motherhood-love-and-epilepsy-hardcover","title":"Gotham Girl Interrupted: My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love, and Epilepsy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlisa Kennedy Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey and Jenny Lawson, \u003cem\u003eGotham Girl Interrupted\u003c\/em\u003e offers a hilarious, heartfelt, and fiercely candid memoir about life as a hapless writer, single parent, impassioned city girl, and epileptic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Smart, harrowing, heart-warming, and very funny.\" --James Patterson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down, \u003cem\u003eGotham Girl Interrupted\u003c\/em\u003e is loaded with brash truths and laugh-out-loud moments about the epileptic age and culture in which we all live. It's also a dispatch from the frontlines of neurodiversity. Above all, it's about the battle for becoming who you are supposed to be and finding your tribe--no matter how much flopping around on the ground and wetting yourself you have to do to get there.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With wit and humility, Alisa Kennedy Jones chronicles her experiences after a diagnosis of ecstatic epilepsy (also suffered by Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Agatha Christie). Beginning with the first in a series of terrifying yet beautiful grand mal seizures, which she likens to \"swallowing a bolt of lightning,\" each seizure leaves her with what Zen Buddhists sometimes refer to as a \"beginner's mind\"--a vast, open expanse of headspace, coupled with a creative euphoria. It's a state that renders you less encumbered by everything you've already learned, but also challenged by having to relearn some of the more basic aspects of daily life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49201986830488,"sku":"9781623545345","price":47.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/R3lENXIxd0hPeFBhalhDUUNaLzRwUT09.webp?v=1780840562","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/gotham-girl-interrupted-my-misadventures-in-motherhood-love-and-epilepsy-hardcover","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}