{"product_id":"9780399183416-i-was-a-child-a-memoir","title":"I Was a Child: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn illustrated memoir by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan. “If The Little Prince had crash-landed, instead of in the Sahara, into a middle-class Jewish home in Maplewood, N.J. in the late 1960s, it might feel something like I Was a Child.”—The Hollywood Reporter   Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the small moments we all experience: going to school, playing with friends, family dinners, watching TV on a hot summer night, and so on. It would seem like a conventional childhood, although Kaplan's anecdotes are accompanied by his signature drawings of family outings and life at home-road trips, milk crates, hamsters, ashtrays, a toupee, a platypus, and much more. Kaplan's cartoons, although simple, are never straightforward; they encompass an easy irony and dark humor that often cuts straight to the truth of experience. Brilliantly relatable and genuinely moving, I Was a Child is about our attempts to understand the mysteries that are our parents, our families, and ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Rider Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53708537692460,"sku":"9780399183416","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/4528\/9004\/files\/9780399183416_db45bf29-fd5d-4f26-982f-071870f49c1f.jpg?v=1786786183","url":"https:\/\/comicsnearme.com\/products\/9780399183416-i-was-a-child-a-memoir","provider":"Stuff Your Mom Hates Comics Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}