{"title":"Karen Jasper","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"an-imperfect-life-paperback","title":"An Imperfect Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Imperfect Life \u003c\/em\u003eis a tender, honest, insightful, and sometimes laugh-out-loud exploration of how a flawed family can still be a gem.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe child of alcoholic parents, Christine Macabee should have known better than to marry a man who drank too much. It's a good thing she has her irrepressible older sister Louise to lean on. After a fatal accident alters the family forever, Christine devises a plan to raise her three children on a steady diet of home cooked meals, inspiring poetry, and the silly addition of a imaginary husband, the singer-songwriter, John Denver. Her plan works, until it doesn't. The kids grow up, fall in and out of love and in and out of trouble-some troubles more serious than others. Christine and Louise provide practical support and sometimes wacky advice to a younger generation facing lost jobs, broken hearts, homophobia, and yet another iteration of alcoholism. And just when it looks like everything back on track, Christine faces a crisis of her own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan Christine Macabee have her own happy ending? Maybe. But not before she's forced to reexamine her version of a perfect life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102198730975,"sku":"9798218887346","price":21.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sfj8aUfe119798218887346.webp?v=1781079128"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/karen-jasper.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}