{"product_id":"when-in-doubt-jump-9798278783282","title":"When In Doubt, Jump!","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mike Orton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Coming of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey said sixteen was too young to know who you are. We decided to prove them wrong.\u003cbr\u003eSouthern California, 1973. Mark Parsons is terrified of everything: his mother's chore lists, the girl who makes his stomach flip, the way the world seems to punish wanting things too much. His only defense is a crew of reckless teenage companions led by Al: the kid who believes the answer to every problem is more speed, more height, more nerve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether they turn a boring suburb into a proving ground: drafting semis at seventy-five miles an hour, streaking Bob's Big Boy, paddling surfboards toward Catalina at dawn, starting a children's theater company on a dare, and learning that sometimes the only way over a wall is straight through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut every jump has a landing. And some landings break more than pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart love letter to the last summer everything still felt possible, part autopsy of the moment it stops being possible, \u003cbr\u003eWhen in Doubt, Jump! is a funny, heartbreaking ride-along with five kids who thought bravery was the same thing as never being afraid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were wrong. They learned anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Mike Orton, author of the viral short story Anthology \"The Peach and Other Miracles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47574239445143,"sku":"9798278783282","price":649.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798278783282.webp?v=1774894951","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/when-in-doubt-jump-9798278783282","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}