{"product_id":"9781787303850-there-is-no-meant-to-be","title":"There Is No Meant to Be","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Family Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is no meant to be but the love I’ve known has made it hard to believe that\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inventive, funny and deeply moving family epic: a love story, an elegy and a reminder that even in the mess of family and memory there is something to laugh about\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e NON-FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wild ride' \u003cb\u003eJON McGREGOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Raw and intimate, so daring and disobedient’ \u003cb\u003eSARAH HALL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most beautiful and truthful song to the pain present in a good life' \u003cb\u003eEVIE WYLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJarred McGinnis was born to a Southern US clan where masculinity, resilience and physical violence were intertwined. In \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Meant to Be\u003c\/i\u003e he unearths the legends, secrets and scars that have shaped his family line from his outlaw Irish ancestors to his mother Momo’s gift of foresight, and the ghosts – both real and remembered – that follow him into adulthood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo decades on from the near-fatal accident that left him in a wheelchair, McGinnis is married and the father of two girls, living first in East London and now Marseille. He writes about love within the context of care and of the particular vulnerability that comes from being a parent with a disability. In a daring imaginative leap, he writes of the end of life too, reaching beyond his own death to look at what truly makes a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An exploration of how to lead a commendable life' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Caustic, hilarious, unflinchingly honest and so captivatingly humane, I couldn't put this book down' \u003cb\u003eJAN CARSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In a world teetering on madness, here is an ode to truth, courage, and the beautiful power of vulnerability' \u003cb\u003eELAINE FEENEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A multi-layered, many-textured masterpiece' \u003cb\u003eCHARLIE GILMOUR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55759336833398,"sku":"9781787303850","price":17.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39230620_f0318940-2457-4e1e-b946-8a50be270ed1.jpg?v=1767101304","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781787303850-there-is-no-meant-to-be","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}