{"product_id":"this-is-a-game-i-play-a-memoir","title":"This Is a Game I Play: A Memoir","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1985904810\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"u72nnj-o5ttw1-a7ozfi-5mmas0\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Is a Game I Play\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles Marie Manilla's coming of age in a large Italian Catholic family in Huntington, West Virginia, during the volatile 1960s and 1970s. As she travels from Texas to Iowa and back to West Virginia, Manilla is clear-eyed about the games she engaged in for attention or survival throughout her adolescence. She confronts her implicit biases and failings, her struggles navigating life with an anxiety disorder, and her ambivalence toward gender roles and expectations for women, such as serving as a caregiver to her aging parents, one of whom has dementia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoven throughout are the games others play. Especially troubling are the countless ways girls and women--Manilla included--fall prey to the wicked games of predatory boys and men, as well as the brutal games the dominant culture play with people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and poor folks who live in areas where natural resources are more highly valued than human life. Offering a unique perspective of urban Appalachia, Manilla's essays serve not only as reflections on the self and society but urge readers to consider the games they (un)knowingly play, too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"refreshable_ppd-center_21\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"refreshable_ppd-center_21\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"refreshable_ppd-center_21\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"refreshable_ppd-center_21\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1985904810\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"i1nf2l-pyx692-bi6gvs-tvxs7k\" data-cel-widget=\"refreshable_ppd-center_21\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_Books\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_Books\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1985904810\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"bgcd6h-bohw50-i0z2zy-7xb4qu\" data-cel-widget=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"tellAmazon\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"tellAmazon\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1985904810\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"c6ta0l-1i10kt-c6t7fj-jsaluv\" data-cel-widget=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget c-f\" data-csa-op-log-render=\"\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"DsUnknown\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"DsUnknown-6\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-painter=\"tell-amazon-desktop-cards\" data-csa-c-id=\"1hpaya-mvn1na-v1i1rz-lljh2t\" data-cel-widget=\"tell-amazon-desktop_DetailPage_5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"CardInstance4tcuHVwHAbNK_EaBA-G2PQ\" data-card-metrics-id=\"tell-amazon-desktop_DetailPage_5\" data-acp-tracking=\"{}\" data-mix-claimed=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Patron Saint of Ugly (winner of the 2014 Weatherford Award) has been described as a blend of magical realism, Southern Gothic, and Sicilian malocchio. Daniel Wallace selected her novel, Shrapnel (2012), as winner of the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. Still Life with Plums: Short Stories (2010), was a finalist for both the Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewww.MarieManilla.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"226 Marie Manilla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46337770553479,"sku":"Manilla 9781985904811","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0363\/1621\/7479\/files\/91BJasdr8iL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793126412","url":"https:\/\/shoptheredcaboosewv.com\/products\/this-is-a-game-i-play-a-memoir","provider":"The Red Caboose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}