{"product_id":"book-ac8e","title":"The Best Awful","description":"\u003cb\u003eSuzanne Vale, the Hollywood actress, whose drug addiction and rehab rigors were so brilliantly dissected by Carrie Fisher in \u003ci\u003ePostcards From the Edge,\u003c\/i\u003e is back. And this time she has a new problem: She's had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay. He forgot to tell her and she forgot to notice.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suzanne's not sure she has what it takes to be the best mother to her daughter, Honey. She can't seem to shake the blues from losing Honey's father to Nick -- the man who got the man who got away. Or maybe those aren't the blues, just more symptoms of her sprawling multi-symptomatic bipolar illness: an illness Suzanne can't bring herself to take all that seriously, no matter what her doctors say. How serious can an illness be whose symptoms are spending sprees, substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity? And worst of all, under the watchful round eyes of the pills the doctors' plied her with, her friends are starting to find her a little...boring. \u003cbr\u003e The obvious solution is to take a little walk on the wild side. But what starts out as a brief gambol through the scary\/fun world of twenty-first-century dating becomes a vigorous jog-trot through the latest drug wonderland -- and finally a wild gallop toward a psychotic breakdown and a stay in \"the bin.\" \u003cbr\u003e Based on a truant's story, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Awful\u003c\/i\u003e is Carrie Fisher's most powerful and revealing novel: hilarious, moving, and fully informed by the wisdom of a true survivor.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348298277168,"sku":"BDac8e","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/225394-ac8e-Square.jpg?v=1734219941","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ac8e","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}