{"product_id":"9781620403020","title":"Flying Shoes","description":"Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn’t resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter’s call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family—and, once again, the murder’s irremovable stain of tragedy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Howorth’s remarkable \u003ci\u003eFlying Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, \u003ci\u003eFlying Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman’s flight from a wounded past.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135960334576,"sku":"9781620403020","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620403020_p0.jpg?v=1763858674","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620403020","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}