{"product_id":"9781668231593","title":"Starting Out: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMarkovits, Ben\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u0026amp;S\/Summit Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/13\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“She thought, maybe later you’ll remember this and think when you were young, you were carefree, everything was possible, but that’s not what it was actually like.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize–shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rest of Our Lives \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a novel about beginnings: the stories we tell ourselves about how we’re supposed to grow up, and what happens when we discover they might not be true.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa is a bookish girl. Growing up in Austin, she thinks life will be like it is in the pages of books. But it turns out, life is so much more. It’s harder, trickier, more beautiful, wider and wilder, full of choices big and small.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen Lisa goes to college, falls in love, begins graduate school, gets married, has a kid—when she starts living what looks like Real Life—the rules she always lived by begin to blur. And as Lisa moves into adulthood, she faces the tricky tests of young marriage and aging parents and ambition and family. Lisa thought once she gets going in life, it would all fall into place, and instead she has to start out over and over again.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStarting Out\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about the tough beauty of growing pains and the profound awareness of the choices that shape a life.","brand":"S\u0026S\/Summit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48688228532479,"sku":"9781668231593","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781668231593_s600x595.jpg?v=1781545246","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781668231593","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}