{"product_id":"child-bride-9781684630387","title":"Child Bride","description":"In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears \u003cbr\u003ewitness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. Married off \u003cbr\u003ewhen she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to the city of \u003cbr\u003eBoston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a wife to a \u003cbr\u003econtrolling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter giving birth to three children, Nell's body begins to fail her. \u003cbr\u003eHer husband, concerned for her health, pulls away from her physically. \u003cbr\u003eBut this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms of another man, \u003cbr\u003eCharles-- an encounter that leads to another pregnancy, and another \u003cbr\u003eunanticipated adventure for Nell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith Turner, Jennifer:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jennifer Smith Turner is a New England-born writer. She is the author of two poetry books, \u003cem\u003eLost and Found: Rhyming Verse Honoring African American Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePerennial Secrets: Poetry \u0026amp; Prose\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the retired CEO of Girl Scouts of Connecticut. During her professional career, she served as an appointed government official with the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford as a corporate and nonprofit executive, and as a member of many academic and nonprofit boards of directors. She retired to Martha's Vineyard with her husband, Eric Turner, in 2012.","brand":"Sparkpress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50506195075346,"sku":"9781684630387","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a3fddd7-5eba-4c08-9d2e-5209b65b2513.jpg?v=1730847461","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/child-bride-9781684630387","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}