{"product_id":"imaginary-parents-9780826317636","title":"Imaginary Parents","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this uniquely fashioned memoir  one sister uses words  the other installations to re-create a childhood filled with adventure  tragedy  and the two most glamorous and mysterious people in their young lives: their parents. The setting is Los Angeles during and after World War Two. Hollywood is defining. Cigarettes ubiquitous. A meal is not a meal without meat or eggs. Red lips  toenails  and fingernails match red cotton blouses festooned with yellow sombreros. Taking on the voices of her mother  father and sister--as well as speaking for herself--Sheila Ortiz Taylor  the writerly daughter of an Anglo vaudevillian-lawyer and a Chicana movie star manqu  strings together well-crafted vignettes that read like film clips. One scene leads to another  fractures into another until a rich family drama and a remarkably clear child perspective emerge through the silences and substance. Sandra  the elder  artistic sister  offers 3-D collages in a simultaneous yet slightly shifted narrative of life under their fathers red-tiled roof. Mirrors  tortillas  calaveras  Mexico  horses  books  boats and guns are the curios of the Ortiz Taylor family cabinet. Readers will set to recollecting their own pocadillas after relishing this funny  touching portrait of a regular yet anything but common American family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67915913855029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826317634","price":67.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826317636.jpg?v=1794048211","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/imaginary-parents-9780826317636","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}