{"product_id":"what-clouds-there-were-were-white-9781462815234","title":"What Clouds There Were Were White","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf America had a heart, one might call it Brooklyn. This story is a small piece of that heart, told with verve by a young girl who dreams of becoming a writer. In these pages, she records her travel from fourteen through \u0026amp;quote;sweet sixteen\u0026amp;quote; (1929-1930), mixing the routines of her neighborhood life in Flatbush with poems, radio song lyrics, her love of books, regular trips to the theater to watch the latest \u0026amp;quote;pictures,\u0026amp;quote; illustrations of her Jazz Age clothes, and her romantic notions about boys. Here, at the beginning of the Depression, she reluctantly shortens her education to learn marketable skills at a business schooltyping, shorthand, letter-writingand finds her first job in Manhattan at a fan manufacturing firm for $15\/week. Though the novel she is co-writing with her girl friend is ultimately burned in the winter woods, this, the truer, fuller story, survives. It is, at heart, a coming-of-ages narrative. Posthumously published, this book finally fulfills her girlhood dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53028161945879,"sku":null,"price":1213.44,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781462815234.jpg?v=1780993586","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/te\/products\/what-clouds-there-were-were-white-9781462815234","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}