{"product_id":"night-after-christmas-book-james-stevenson-9780688045906","title":"The Night After Christmas","description":"Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe Metal Cowboy Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For a 4,000-mile bicycle ride across America, Joe's seven-year-old son, Quinn, rides a tagalong bike attached to his dad's; and behind that is five-year-old Enzo in a bike trailer. Our hero the Metal Cowboy answers the question What are you, crazy? with a resounding and cheerful Yes. Unassisted-with no support crew except his boys' comic relief and the periodic kindness of strangers-he pedals hundreds of pounds of gear and offspring over mountain passes, across the wide plains, through thunderstorms, and into the heart of what it means to be a dad. Along the way they encounter everything that makes up America-small-town kindness and inner-city heart, wild horses and highway roadkill, a?bitter Vietnam vet and a hopeful young inventor, grizzly bears and bison roaming free, cyclists and monstrous RVs, a very peppy cheerleader and a visitation from the ghost of the author's father, horrible traffic and serene dirt roads, a monastery and a distillery, baseball, and yes, lots of pie. By the time they reach Washington, DC, two months after leaving Portland, Oregon, they've bonded in a rare way. Kurmaskie writes, We share a secret, the three of us; one permanent summer in our hearts now, where we're never apart.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50101659730193,"sku":"CIN0688045901G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0688045901.jpg?v=1751294625","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/night-after-christmas-book-james-stevenson-9780688045906","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}