{ "item_title" : "Loving Lindsey", "item_author" : [" Linda Atwell "], "item_description" : "Winner - 6th Annual Beverly Hills Book Award for Relationships and Parenting & FamiliesAward Finalist in the Parenting & Family category of the 2017 Best Book AwardsFinalist, 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Memoirs--Overcoming Adversity/TragedyLinda Atwell and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey--a high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities--have always had a complicated relationship. But when Lindsey graduates from Silverton High School at nineteen and gets a job at Goodwill, she also moves into a newly remodeled cottage in her parents' backyard--and Linda believes that all their difficult times may finally be behind them.Life, however, proves not to be so simple. As Lindsey plunges into adulthood, she experiments with sex, considers a tubal ligation, and at twenty quits Goodwill and runs away with Emmett, a man more than twice her age. As Lindsey grows closer to Emmett, she slips further away from her family--but Linda, determined to save her daughter, refuses to give up. A touching memoir with unexpected moments of joy and humor, Loving Lindsey is a story about independence, rescue, resilience, and, most of all, love.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/63/152/280/1631522809_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.95", "online_price" : "16.95", "our_price" : "16.95", "club_price" : "16.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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