{"product_id":"9780870136405","title":"Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir","description":"Writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty-stricken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity.\u003cp\u003e Utterly engrossing, The Low Road navigates between family fable and fact as Miner leads us through her discoveries about back-street abortion and tuberculosis, orphanhood, exile, estrangement, and reconciliation to reach the place of acceptance and understanding.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032049991920,"sku":"9780870136405","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780870136405_p0.jpg?v=1763848136","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780870136405","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}