{"product_id":"9780979641503","title":"Billie Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Honestly strange and strangely honest. . . . Remarkably compelling and powerful. Weaver's authenticity of characters, situations, and bygone eras emanates from sheer originality of style. This amazing novel is a stellar achievement—gritty, funny, fresh, and bold. It will make your eyes bug out and your pulse race. And how it \u003ci\u003eshines\u003c\/i\u003e, shines with humanity!\"—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of \u003ci\u003eAhab's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Southern Gothic to the core, suffused with a humor as dark as the bottom of a Georgia well. . . .Weaver has stepped forward for the benefit of anyone who reads American fiction.\"—Kirby Gann, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Napoleon in Rags\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Savagely funny, wildly ambitious. . . . A bawdy, brutal, and beautiful meditation on identity, sex, and mercy. Weaver has a fiercely distinctive vision.\"—K.L. Cook, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from Charnelle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Darkly comic, deeply poignant. . . . Billie Girl is the adventurer through a long, strange trip that is life itself.\"—Roy Hoffman, author of \u003ci\u003eChicken Dreaming Corn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned as in infant because of her incessant crying, Billie Girl is raised by two women who are brothers. Her life, a gender-bending puzzle filled with dark humor, is a series of encounters with strangers who struggle along with what they are given: a bigamist husband, a long-lost daughter named after a car, a lesbian preacher's wife, a platonic second husband who loved her adoptive father. Twin themes of sexuality and euthanasia run throughout. In a journey from hard-dirt Georgia farm to end-of-life nursing home, Billie Girl comes to understand the mercy of killing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leapfrog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120192471280,"sku":"9780979641503","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780979641503_p0.jpg?v=1763872457","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780979641503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}