{"product_id":"9781469780849","title":"Bastards, Bitches, and Heroes: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book describes the horrors of our family which started during World War II in Germany, and continued for years thereafter because our father abandoned us.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAfter twenty court processes, involving two dozen lawyers and judges, our family lost everything. My little brother, Siggi, and I suffered severe illnesses, starvation and homelessness. When we were about five and seven, our mother forced us to scavenge pig's innards from a manure pile. With the ever-present wire whip that she usually kept pinned to her skirt, she enticed us to eat them. A judge evicted us from our home. On Christmas Eve Day. For one year we squatted in a stranger's attic without water, sewer, heat, power or hope.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhen we were fourteen and sixteen, our relatives invited us to America. We now thought that our lives would improve: Cowboys and Indians! But when we later arrived on their dairy farms, they enslaved us. I was not allowed to bathe but once a year. At the age of twenty-one, I still lived without water, heat, power, or outhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAfter we finally escaped, Siggi and I worked our way through college, became American citizens and world travelers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135644909808,"sku":"9781469780849","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469780849_p0.jpg?v=1763700941","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469780849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}