{"product_id":"i-wouldn-t-normally-do-this-kind-of-thing-book-marshall-moore-9781608641611","title":"I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do you get when you mix a father with severe PTSD after barely surviving the Vietnam War, a self-proclaimed clairvoyant mother with anger issues and no filter whatsoever, rivers of booze, an awkward but academically gifted son, and a daughter with a hidden disability and a mile-wide rebellious streak? This is going to get messy. Then throw in a generous helping of domestic violence, some good old-fashioned small-town Southern homophobia, and the kind of dark family secret that makes headlines. You've got all the makings of a complete, blazing disaster. Literally: Marshall Moore got into the groundbreaking North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, the nation's first residential STEM-focused magnet school, as a means of escaping a hometown and a childhood he otherwise might not have survived. He then set it on fire. And then the story gets really complicated. \u003cem\u003eI Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir about a family cosplaying normalcy in Southern suburbia in the seventies and eighties: shocking, hilarious, appalling, bizarre, and. actually true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarshall Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four novels (\u003cem\u003eInhospitable\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn Ideal for Living\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eThe Concrete Sky\u003c\/em\u003e) and three short-fiction collections (\u003cem\u003eA Garden Fed by Lightning\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Infernal Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eBlack Shapes in a Darkened Room\u003c\/em\u003e). His work has appeared in\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLitro, Storgy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePassengers Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQuarterly Literary Review Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAsia Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Barcelona Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other journals and anthologies. He is also the co-editor of three academic books on the pedagogy of creative writing and publishing. He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University. A native of eastern North Carolina, he lives in Cornwall, England, and teaches creative writing and publishing at Falmouth University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583840297233,"sku":"GOR013122686","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51091287834897,"sku":"NIN9781608641611","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52433270898961,"sku":"NLS9781608641611","price":26.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1608641619.jpg?v=1750927215","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/i-wouldn-t-normally-do-this-kind-of-thing-book-marshall-moore-9781608641611","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}