{"product_id":"9781398441071","title":"My Life As a Nomad","description":"Mary Smith was born and raised in a country behind the Iron Curtain. She lived in a tiny apartment and shared a bedroom with her parents during the frigid winter months. She wore school uniforms and red pioneer ties. She ate variations of potato dishes, stood in line for a loaf of bread, carried heavy blocks of ice during the hot summer days, played hide-and-seek with the children in the building, and thought that life was wonderful. Her nonconformist parents, however, talked of a world beyond the Iron Curtain and planned to escape to a place where they thought they would find freedom.\u003cbr\u003eMy Life As a Nomad recounts Mary's peregrinations through five countries on three continents that began in 1964. What started as an adventure full of promises, evolved as a perennial search for a \"home\" amid the customs and traditions of an unfamiliar world.\u003cbr\u003e\"Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.\"\u003cbr\u003ePudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\"The quality of mercy... is twice bless'd;\u003cbr\u003eIt blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare","brand":"Austin Macauley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67301225201905,"sku":"9781398441071","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781398441071_p0.jpg?v=1792856398","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781398441071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}