{"product_id":"9781891885723","title":"My Only Sunshine","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1962 the Cubans have their Russian missiles pointed right at the sugarcane plantations of Red Church, Louisiana, but nine-year-old Charlie Boone and his gravel-eating younger brother, Jute, are fixed on velvet ants and the declining health of a horse named Lunch Time. Their father has been sent upriver after a botched convenience store holdup and a walloping with a can of Crisco. Their mother, too, has vanished Memaw and Pawpaw insist she disappeared in a hurricane. But Charlie hasn t given up hope, fondly remembering her singing a campaign song as he dozed off in her lap:\u003ci\u003eYou are my sunshine, my only sunshine . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Charlie s long-lost uncle Dan rolls up at the grandparents  farm like a returning war hero in a stolen Buick the trunk loaded down with erotic contraband, a beautiful girlfriend at his side the misadventures begin. After taking over Charlie s bedroom, the latter-day Bonnie and Clyde grab a laundry bag and head for the Great Southern Bank of Baton Rouge. Thinking they plan to bring back a pair of breakfast pigs, Charlie attempts to dig a pen and opens a mysterious gusher of saltwater. Meanwhile, the good people of Red Church turn on the air raid sirens, and amidst the confusion of a coming Armageddon, Charlie tries his hand at strip poker and whiskey drinking. He is promptly dispatched to reform school, where his real education begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe intertwining stories of Charlie and his uncle Dan in Lou Dischler s hilarious novel\u003ci\u003eMy Only Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e build to an uproarious climax in which an alligator is loosed from a suitcase, the Holy Ghost pays a visit, and Charlie s once lowlife family is raised up by a five-million-ton geological oddity what Pawpaw calls an honest to God fact of nature.  Buckle up for a big dose of Cajun comedy as Charlie takes charge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hub City Writers Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058144821488,"sku":"9781891885723","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781891885723_p0.jpg?v=1763608864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781891885723","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}