{"product_id":"child-of-my-heart-9781250888372","title":"Child of My Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is her town's most sought-after babysitter--cheerful, poised, an effortless storyteller, a wonder with children and animals. Among her charges this fateful summer is Daisy, her younger cousin, who has come to spend a few quiet weeks in this bucolic place. While Theresa copes with the challenges presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the attentions of an aging painter, and Daisy's fragility of body and spirit, her precocious, tongue-in-cheek sense of order is tested as she makes the perilous crossing into adulthood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her deeply etched rendering of all that happened that seemingly idyllic season, Alice McDermott once again peers into the depths of everyday life with inimitable insight and grace. As Margaret Atwood wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChild of My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is \"richly textured [and] intricately woven . . . A work not only of, but about, the imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250888372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Alice McDermott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42835591921845,"sku":"9781250888372","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_08d120c5-8f87-4c10-8ea2-136fdaf8e85f.jpg?v=1681223593","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/child-of-my-heart-9781250888372","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}