{"id":4401,"date":"2017-08-04T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:00:23","slug":"our-short-history-by-lauren-grodstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4425\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ourshorthistory-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Our Short History cover\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ourshorthistory-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ourshorthistory.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>What would you do if you were told you had a terminal disease and were a mom of small children? How would you prepare them? What would you leave to them? Would you write them a memoir to remember you? <em>Our Short History<\/em> tells how Karen Neulander, a single mom,\u00a0deals with this issue after she is diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer and is not expected to live much longer. This is a sensitively written fictional memoir to her six year old son. It&#8217;s sad, but also funny. I would very much recommend it. <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1689480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Request a copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(This review was originally submitted by JoAnn on May 23, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you do if you were told you had a terminal disease and were a mom of small children? How would you prepare them? What would you leave to them? Would you write them a memoir to remember you? Our Short History tells how Karen Neulander, a single mom,\u00a0deals with this issue after she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}