{ "item_title" : "A Perfectly Normal Childhood", "item_author" : [" Jason Ramshaw "], "item_description" : " What if your childhood wasn't random... it was training? A sharp, satirical collection of essays about patterns, people, and the systems hiding underneath everyday life. I want to know who wrote about my childhood without telling me.Before there were systems, there were patterns. Before there was strategy, there were instincts.And before anything else... there was a kid in a cul-de-sac with a typewriter, charging his neighbors fifty cents to read about themselves.A Perfectly Normal Childhood (and Other Lies I Tell Myself) is a collection of short, sharp, and often uncomfortable essays about: Trying to outsmart your teachers - and sometimes succeedingBuilding businesses before you know what a business isLearning how people actually behave (not how they say they behave)Realizing, slowly, that most of life is pattern recognitionThis is not a traditional memoir.It doesn't move in a straight line. It doesn't try to inspire you. It doesn't ask for your approval.Instead, it does something more dangerous: It shows you the systems underneath everything - childhood, school, business, language, relationships - and leaves you alone with what you see.Some of it is funny. Some of it is uncomfortable. Some of it will feel like it's about you, even when it clearly isn't. Like listening to somebody tell stories after midnight when people stop pretending their lives made perfect sense.If you've ever: Questioned authority (and then questioned yourself for doing it)Noticed patterns other people ignoreBuilt something before you were qualified to build itOr realized a little too late how a system actually works...this book will make immediate sense.And once you see it -you don't unsee it. No filler. No lessons. Just a man who noticed everything before he was twelve and spent the next thirty years trying to figure out if that was a gift or a diagnosis.For readers of David Sedaris, Sloane Crosley, Jenny Lawson, and Samantha Irby.Book One of the Still Noticing trilogy. Book Two: Nothing New, Just Better Lighting - available now. Book Three: Before Anyone Says Anything - available now.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/825/421/9798254216063_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.95", "online_price" : "12.95", "our_price" : "12.95", "club_price" : "12.95", "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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