{"product_id":"whistling-past-the-graveyard-9781476740041","title":"Whistling Past the Graveyard","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhistling past the graveyard. That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is--as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrandall, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Susan Crandall is a critically acclaimed author of women's fiction, romance, and suspense. She has written several award-winning novels including her first book, \u003ci\u003eBack Roads\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the RITA award for best first book, as well as \u003ci\u003eWhistling Past the Graveyard\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the SIBA 2014 Book Award for Fiction. Susan lives in Noblesville, Indiana, with her family.","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50583211147538,"sku":"9781476740041","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e96b6814-08bd-4756-864d-9be3960947ab.jpg?v=1732026754","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whistling-past-the-graveyard-9781476740041","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}