{"product_id":"long-past-stopping-a-memoir-isbn-9780061450761","title":"Long Past Stopping: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eOran Canfield—son of self-help guru and \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul \u003c\/em\u003ecreator Jack Canfield—tells his surreal story of growing up in \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping. \u003c\/em\u003eIn this remarkable memoir, writing with a wry and cutting edge, Canfield relates tales of a childhood in flux—being buffeted about among family friends, relatives, rebels, and born-again circus clowns, in an anarchist private school, communes, and libertarian enclaves—and of a young adulthood spent among the ruins of heroin addiction. \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping \u003c\/em\u003eis Oran Canfield’s often hilariously harrowing tale of surviving life in the strange lane.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eJuggled between an endless succession of friends, relatives, anarchist boarding schools, libertarian commune dwellers, socialist rebels, and born-again circus clowns, Oran Canfield grew up viewing the inconsistencies of the world with a wary eye. The son of Jack Canfield—the motivational speaker and creator of \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e—Oran is intensely self-conscious and reserved, but his life can't seem to leave him alone. Whether he's teaching two hundred eager self-help disciples to juggle (among them a woman with stumps for hands), dodging a series of wacky near-death experiences, delivering newspapers in satin pants on a unicycle, or experimenting with drugs in the back of a Mexican cop car at age thirteen, one thing's for sure: Oran's life is much stranger than fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith mordant wit, \u003cem\u003eLong Past Stopping\u003c\/em\u003e grapples with the paradoxes of a mad world and shows that feel-good nostrums go only so far. Sometimes the only way out is the hard way. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you’d be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious… [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary…[makes] you laugh out loud.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Ko, author of The Leavers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes… The author’s deadpan irony is…brilliant…” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887820566757,"sku":"NP9780061450761","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061450761.jpg?v=1730227533","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/long-past-stopping-a-memoir-isbn-9780061450761","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}