{"product_id":"lay-it-on-my-heart-9780151012589","title":"Lay It on My Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's summer in Kentucky, the low ceiling of August pressing down on Charmaine Peake and the town of East Winder. Charmaine and her mother get along better with a room between them, but they've been forced by circumstances to relocate to a tiny trailer by the river. The last of a line of local holy men, Charmaine's father has turned from prophet to patient, his revelation lost in the clarifying haze of medication. Her sure-minded grandmother has suffered a stroke. At church, where she has always felt most certain, Charmaine is tested when she uncovers that her archrival, a sanctimonious missionary kid, carries a dark, confusing secret. Suddenly her life can be sorted into what she wishes she knew and what she wishes she didn't. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA moving, hilarious portrait of mothers and daughters, \u003ci\u003eLay It on My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e brings us into the heart of a family weathering the toughest patch of their lives. But most of all, it marks out the seemingly unbearable realities of growing up, the strength that comes from finding real friendship, and the power of discovering--and accepting--who you are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePneuman, Angela:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ANGELA PNEUMAN, raised in Kentucky, is a former Stegner Fellow and teaches fiction writing at Stanford University. Her work has been included in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her widely praised story collection, \u003ci\u003eHome Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e, was hailed as \"call[ing] to mind Alice Munro\" by the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Chicago and in the Bay Area of California.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318173274386,"sku":"9780151012589","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_654e44d5-3a25-4ada-8c15-de416e7132b8.jpg?v=1727549934","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lay-it-on-my-heart-9780151012589","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}