{"product_id":"everything-is-wrong-with-me-a-memoir-of-an-american-childhood-gone-well-wrong-isbn-9780061766657","title":"Everything Is Wrong with Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong","description":"\u003cp\u003e“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages of a book. Godspeed, reader.” — Steve Hely, author of How I Became a Famous Novelist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Mulgrew’s wildly popular blog “Everything Is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry,” gives rise to a memoir of startling insight, comedy, and irreversible, unconscionable stupidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Dysfunctional Family Memoir:\u003c\/b\u003e Where your dad getting arrested for attempted murder on Christmas Eve is just another story you grow up with.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSouth Philly Setting:\u003c\/b\u003e From the Mummers Parade to stealing cable with \"the chip,\" this is a laugh-out-loud tour of a working-class neighborhood that time forgot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e80s and 90s Nostalgia:\u003c\/b\u003e A time of Sega Genesis, stolen condoms, cap guns, and discovering pornography for the first time on a fuzzy cable channel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHumorous Essays:\u003c\/b\u003e Read the story of the Scotch Bonnet Pepper challenge, a childhood fireworks-selling enterprise, and the surprisingly poignant search for hookers in his dad’s truck.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA memoir of startling insight, divine comedy, and irreversible, unconscionable stupidity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of Jason Mulgrew's wildly popular blog know that everything really \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e wrong with him. The product of a raucous, not-just-semi-but-fully-dysfunctional Philadelphia family, Jason has seen it all—from Little League games of unspeakable horror to citywide parades ending in stab wounds; from hard-partying longshoremen fathers to feathered-hair, no-nonsense, kindhearted mothers; and from conscience-crippling Catholic dogmas to the equally confounding religion of women. With chapter titles like \"My Bird: Inadequacy and Redemption\" (no, he is not referring to a parakeet) and \"On the Relationship Between Genetics and Hustling,\" \u003cem\u003eEverything Is Wrong with M\u003c\/em\u003ee proves that, as Jason puts it, \"writing is a fantastical exercise in manic depression\"—but he never fails to ensure that laughter is part of the routine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith echoes of Jean Shepherd transplanted to Philly in the eighties and nineties, this book is a must-read for every person who looks back wistfully on his or her childhood and family and wonders, \"What were we thinking?\"\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages of a book.  Godspeed, reader.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Hely, author of How I Became a Famous Novelist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887906124005,"sku":"NP9780061766657","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061766657.jpg?v=1730227706","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/everything-is-wrong-with-me-a-memoir-of-an-american-childhood-gone-well-wrong-isbn-9780061766657","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}