{"product_id":"stormy-weather-9780060537333","title":"Stormy Weather","description":"\u003cp\u003eOil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls--responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea--know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. But in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable \"accident\" leaves the girls and their mother, Elizabeth, alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning to their previously abandoned family farm, the resilient Stoddard women must now place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up what little they have left . . . and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJiles, Paulette:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePaulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCousins\u003c\/em\u003e, a memoir, and the novels \u003cem\u003eEnemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNews of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647412310290,"sku":"9780060537333","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_93de33bb-1924-449c-b69e-2177a201c300.jpg?v=1734799367","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stormy-weather-9780060537333","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}