{"product_id":"like-crazy-life-with-my-mother-and-her-invisible-friends","title":"Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLike Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDan Mathews\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781501199981\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAtria Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exquisite. Full of wry humor, tenderness, and compassion.\" --Jeannette Walls, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about an outlandish mother and son on an odyssey of self-discovery, and the rag-tag community that rallied to help them as the mother entered the final phase of her life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDan Mathews knew that his witty, bawdy, unhinged mother, Perry, was unable to maintain her fierce independence at seventy-eight--so he flew her across the country to Virginia to live with him in an 1870 townhouse badly in need of repairs. But to Dan, a screwdriver is a cocktail not a tool, and he was soon overwhelmed with two fixer-uppers: the house and his mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnbowed, Dan and Perry built a rollicking life together fueled by costume parties, road trips, after-hours gatherings, and an unshakeable sense of humor as they faced down hurricanes, blizzards, and Perry's steady decline. They got by with the help of an ever-expanding circle of sidekicks--Dan's boyfriends (past and present), ex-cons, sailors, strippers, deaf hillbillies, evangelicals, and grumpy cats--while flipping the parent-child relationship on its head. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut it wasn't until a kicking-and-screaming trip to the emergency room that Dan discovered the cause of his mother's unpredictable, often caustic behavior: Perry had lived her entire adult life as an undiagnosed schizophrenic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrreverent and emotionally powerful, \u003ci\u003eLike Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly comic tale about the perils and rewards of taking in a fragile parent without derailing your life in the process. A rare story about mental illness with an uplifting conclusion, it shows the remarkable growth that takes place when a wild child settles down to care for the wild woman who raised him.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends | Dan Mathews | Hardcover | 9781501199981 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1768521","offer_id":49517572948120,"sku":"1768521","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/913cOIlkeSL.jpg?v=1784616185","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/like-crazy-life-with-my-mother-and-her-invisible-friends","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}