{"product_id":"9781565127005","title":"A Virtuous Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “vivid, unsentimental, powerful” portrait of a Southern marriage by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEllen Foster\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe hasn’t been dead four months and I’ve already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn’t turn my hand over for green peas . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ruby Stokes has died too young and left her husband, Blinking Jack, behind. With alternating entries from each of them, \u003ci\u003eA Virtuous Woman\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the tale of their years together in an “exquisitely realised piece of writing” (Elizabeth Buchan, \u003ci\u003eThe Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From their very different backgrounds—Ruby a daughter of wealth, Jack a penniless tenant farmer—to their relationships with their landlord and his family, and the strength they drew from each other in the face of hardship, this story of a marriage is “full of fantastically gritty metaphors . . . A book that will change your dreams” (\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Gibbons again flawlessly reproduces the humor and idiom of rural eastern North Carolina.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146552426736,"sku":"9781565127005","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781565127005_p0.jpg?v=1769899758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781565127005","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}