{"product_id":"9781476707730","title":"Whistling Past the Graveyard","description":"From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhistling past the graveyard\u003c\/i\u003e. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135772836080,"sku":"9781476707730","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476707730_p0.jpg?v=1763609188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476707730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}