{"product_id":"the-authenticity-project-a-novel-9781984878618","title":"The Authenticity Project: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A clever  uplifting book that entertains and makes you think.\" --Sophie Kinsella  #1 New York Times bestselling author  The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship  and even love  Julian Jessop  an eccentric  lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people arent really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes--in a plain  green journal--the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local caf. Its run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica  who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long  the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves--and soon find each other In Real Life at Monicas Caf.  The Authenticity Projects cast of characters--including Hazard  the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice  the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends--is by turns quirky and funny  heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. Its a story about being brave and putting your real self forward--and finding out that its not as scary as it seems. In fact  it looks a lot like happiness.  The Authenticity Project is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring for--and one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648315088949,"sku":"ByrdShop_1984878611","price":23.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781984878618.jpg?v=1781715621","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-authenticity-project-a-novel-9781984878618","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}