{"product_id":"9781250031365","title":"It Runs in the Family: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt Runs in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of faith and willful ignorance, truths and secrets, rural and urban labor, and fire: fire as both knowledge and destructive force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Manning was raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, in a working- class family of Christian fundamentalists. Manning's father was a jack of many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder, power lineman, factory worker, small businessman. His mother concealed her own troubled childhood beneath a religious faith that explained away uncertainty, illness, and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eManning grew up learning how to work and what to believe---but came to understand his family's seemingly-normal facade as a mask for troubling secrets. \u003ci\u003eIt Runs in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Manning's journey away from his family, one that ranges from their Michigan farm to the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana, and finally to a remote village in Panama, where he comes to pursue a past he had vowed to leave behind. Linking his own life with the larger story of his family, the land they inhabited, and the right-wing fundamentalist politics gaining ground in America, Richard Manning offers a singular memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127618617584,"sku":"9781250031365","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250031365_p0.jpg?v=1763701443","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250031365","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}