{"product_id":"baby-driver","title":"Baby Driver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack—a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish her boyfriend John can catch in Yelapa, Mexico. Her sojourn there–both thrilling and heartbreaking–marks the beginning of a life of restless wandering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJan Kerouac, the only child of Jack Kerouac, first published her autobiographical novel \u003cem\u003eBaby Driver\u003c\/em\u003e in 1981. Fearless and frank, \u003cem\u003eBaby Driver\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a difficult childhood, marked by maternal warmth and paternal disregard, and of the heady freedom and precariousness of self-reliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanet Michelle (Jan) Kerouac (1952–1996) was born in Albany, New York, several months after her parents, the writer and Beat generation icon Jack Kerouac and his second wife, Joan Haverty, separated. Raised by her mother on the Lower East Side of New York City, and unacknowledged by her father until age nine, Kerouac left home in her teens and traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico, and South America. She married John Lamb Lash, a writer, in San Francisco in 1968. She wrote three semi-autobiographical novels: \u003cem\u003eBaby Driver\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), which recalls her childhood in New York City and peripatetic youth; \u003cem\u003eTrain Song\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), which chronicles her latest travels as an adult and further reckoning with her father's absence; and the unfinished \u003cem\u003eParrot Fever\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), which was published posthumously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288358404253,"sku":"9781681379739","price":95.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9781681379739.jpg?v=1764148851","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/baby-driver","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}