{"product_id":"9781250024114","title":"When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder.\"—Ann Lamott, author of \u003ci\u003eImperfect Birds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone.\" This is what Terry Tempest Williams's mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as it was to discover that the three shelves of journals were all blank. In fifty-four short chapters, Williams recounts memories of her mother, ponders her own faith, and contemplates the notion of absence and presence art and in our world. \u003ci\u003eWhen Women Were Birds\u003c\/i\u003e is a carefully crafted kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question: What does it mean to have a voice?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017845096688,"sku":"9781250024114","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250024114_p0.jpg?v=1763700889","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250024114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}