{"product_id":"9781958888834-fancy-meeting-you","title":"Fancy Meeting You","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA middle-aged woman's unlikely and hilarious tardy coming-of-age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeet Laura Harrigan. Depending on who Laura is talking to, she's a psychiatrist, a business consultant, or a mother of twin boys at Yale. That last one is a new lie she's trying on for size. In reality, Laura is middle-aged, childless, \"involuntarily unmarried,\" and works a job far beneath her capabilities. She is a graduate of Harvard, but as she notes, \"Meeting other people's expectations is something I am famously unable to do.\" Most nights, Laura can be found at Baltimore's least-glamorous dive, The Chicken Box, where the bartender knows when to call her an Uber. At the weekend, she might be hooking up with a care home aide at her elderly father's birthday party, much to the chagrin of her uptight sister, Nadine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story follows Laura in her home in Baltimore and elsewhere through her fiftieth year. Each chapter marks her encounter with a new character-a family member or two, a potential lover, complete strangerseach offering their own brand of wisdom or judgment or wacky opinion. Somehow, through these entanglements, Laura begins to gather bits and pieces of the self-knowledge she is lacking. Most, if not all, coming-of-age stories are about young people, but this is a middle-aged coming-of-age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58177705410934,"sku":"9781958888834","price":20.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41252809.jpg?v=1782746704","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781958888834-fancy-meeting-you","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}