{"product_id":"9781680030747","title":"My Mother's House","description":"Set in the bucolic, yet brutal South of his youth, \u003ci\u003eMy Mother’s House\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir by novelist David Armand. It recounts the young author’s early memories of being born to a schizophrenic mother, then given up for adoption, only to be raised in a home with an alcoholic and abusive step-father. In this sharply-remembered portrait of the people and places that shaped him, Armand paints his seemingly negative experiences with a sympathetic and understanding brush. As the reader follows Armand through his childhood and later into adult life—when he is reunited with his mother after she makes a failed suicide attempt—a surprisingly new world of hope and possibility is rendered, despite the overwhelming challenges of this reunion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e [Armand's] writing is reminiscent of Hemingway: straightforward descriptions of manly action punctuated by laconic dialogue.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Armand writes in a comfortingly familiar literary voice that blends Ernest Hemingway’s laconic but rhythmically complicated explorations of the mysteries of masculinity with William Faulkner’s more fabulist, Southern Gothic twang. It’s a heady, seductively intoxicating combination.\"--\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178256777456,"sku":"9781680030747","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680030747_p0.jpg?v=1763689661","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680030747","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}