{"product_id":"whatever-makes-you-happy-a-novel-9781596914506","title":"Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan three mothers save their shiftless sons from themselvesin just one week?  Gillian  Helen  and Carol are three suburban mothers who have known each other since their respective sons were babies  and have met in a regular coffee group for years. These days  their sons are a bunch of thirty-four-year-old layabouts: they have no wives and no children  never call  and seem unlikely to outgrow their post-adolescent lifestyles anytime soon. After yet another fruitless Mothers Day  Carol has an outlandish but irresistible idea: each woman will go drop in on her son for an unexpected weeklong visit and find out whats really keeping him from responsible adult life.  What they encounter is Matt  an editor for a mens magazine called BALLS!  whose interests center on videogames and bedding underage models; Paul  who lives in a gay commune (at least thats his mothers take on it) and has secretly fathered a child with a lesbian couple; and Daniel  who has run away to Edinburgh to mope after breaking up with the love of his life out of sheer stubbornness. Together  and with mixed success  the mothers set out to whip their sons into shape.  Hugely amusing and yet also remarkably insightful about family life  Whatever Makes You Happy will strike close to home for all the parents who yearn for a closer relationship with their adult children  and for the younger generation who might seem to want the opposite  yet can never quite relinquish the hope that their parents will swoop in and set things right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932278620213,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596914505","price":57.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596914506.jpg?v=1794222419","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/whatever-makes-you-happy-a-novel-9781596914506","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}