{"product_id":"reality-check-a-for-better-or-for-worse-collection","title":"Reality Check: A For Better or For Worse Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey say life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. And in the latest update of the Patterson family, life is \"happening\" and a few new realities have set in. Still adjusting to their status as newlyweds, Mike and Deanna find that two cannot live as cheaply as one, and then learn an unexpected baby is on the way. After discovering that her live-in boyfriend was cheating on her, Elizabeth swaps steady date for blank slate. And Grandpa Jim catches everyone (including himself) off-guard when he and Iris elope to England. Life, it seems, always has a new surprise in store. Lynn Johnston has been bringing life to the Patterson clan for nearly 25 years, and for readers of more than 2,000 newspapers around the world, life just wouldn't seem right without her daily dispatch. This is the magic of \u003cem\u003eFor Better of For Worse\u003c\/em\u003e: it is real life at its most realistic. Like real life, it is unpredictable, enlightening, heartwarming, honest, sometimes sad, and often very funny. Reality Check gives readers more of what they've come to expect from Johnston's beloved cartoon: a sense of connection, a shared intimacy with a family as familiar as their own, and a front-row seat to the enduring, endearing comic saga called life. Like the many \u003cem\u003eFor Better or For Worse\u003c\/em\u003e collections that have preceded it, \u003cem\u003eReality Check \u003c\/em\u003eis sure to resonate with fans around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lynn Johnston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49491784794409,"sku":"738104B","price":8.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9435\/7545\/files\/reality-check-a-for-better-or-for-worse-collection-532255.jpg?v=1754395417","url":"https:\/\/thebookstore.pro\/products\/reality-check-a-for-better-or-for-worse-collection","provider":"The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}