{"product_id":"fancy-meeting-you-9781958888834","title":"Fancy Meeting You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA middle-aged woman’s unlikely and hilarious tardy coming-of-age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 strangers–each 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Marburg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280098767099,"sku":"9781958888834","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_60ca83ed-9a76-40f3-a7fe-a55c78fa6430.jpg?v=1777993936","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/fancy-meeting-you-9781958888834","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}