{"product_id":"9781463412456","title":"Mourning Glory: The Little Girl Inside","description":"MOURNING GLORY  Daddy is facing a grand jury on three counts of statutory rape against my sisters, Aunt Bea is having his baby and he is having a stroke. He has never been committed, but by all normal standards he ought been. I mean … I swear he has got to be just a little bit insane. Annie Belle (my mom) probably don’t know whether to pray for him or pull the plug. But, she’s got her head stuck in the bottle; and what’s that they say … “the apple don’t fall far from the tree”? As much as I hated seeing her drink herself to death to numb the pain, I’ve grown up self-medicating, and repeating the same mistakes, she made. She married Rupert, my daddy; I married Delbert, but the pain is the same. It only gets harder, the truth blacker and I … I stop fighting and go to wasting away, feeding on drugs to keep the ugly away. Hell, what am I supposed to do? ‘Cause ”good fruit don’t come from bad seed” no ways; ‘dat’s what Aunt Trudy always said and Aunt Trudy is a woman of God. But I’ll be %#** Aunt Trudy, ‘cause ‘dem words keep me feeling worthless, like a thorn bush in a garden of morning glories. I’m slipping; crumbling fast, like an old newspaper full of yesterday’s news. And if I don’t get hold to myself, um gon’ be yesterday’s news; lost in a lousy legacy of lethargic rejects longing for answers in a line of dope or a loaded syringe.    COMMENTS FROM THE EDITOR  I found it to be a very moving and in fact, a haunting story. There is both humor and love, so it is not unmitigated. It reminds me of Dorothy Allison’s, “A Bastard Out of Carolina”, in some ways. It is not that the story or characters resemble hers, but it is similar in telling a story that may be hard for people to hear. So many will feel that this story needs to be told.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173606506736,"sku":"9781463412456","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781463412456_p0.jpg?v=1763681601","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781463412456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}