{"product_id":"9781469726564","title":"Stain the Water Clear: A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin' Columns, 1993-2002","description":"For years, readers of Luanne Austin’s \u003ci\u003eRural Pen\u003c\/i\u003e column in the \u003ci\u003eDaily News-Record\u003c\/i\u003e have been asking for a compilation of her work. Here it is. \u003ci\u003eStain the Water Clear\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection spanning 10 years. Her first \u003ci\u003eSouthern Yankee\u003c\/i\u003e writings focused on the transplanted life of a young woman who had moved from her native New York to “the South.” \u003ci\u003eYankee Doodlin'\u003c\/i\u003e continued on this theme, but expanded to family life, relationships and meditations on life. Finally, the \u003ci\u003eRural Pen\u003c\/i\u003e pieces are those of a writer who has found her voice, addressing a range of topics, from politics to religion, to love and women’s issues, to meditations on nature and spirituality .The name of the column and this book come from William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”: “And I made a rural pen, And I stain’d the water clear…”","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174982500592,"sku":"9781469726564","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469726564_p0.jpg?v=1763699812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469726564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}