{"product_id":"wishing-for-snow-9780062046345","title":"Wishing for Snow","description":"Inthe tradition of Jeanette Walls' \u003cem\u003eTheGlass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e and Sara Gruen's \u003cem\u003eWater for Elephants\u003c\/em\u003e, novelist Minrose Gwin offers a beautifullycrafted memoir of rediscovering her mother, the mentally ill poet Erin Taylor, after a life of growing up with her in the South. In an intimate, surprising, emotional, and ultimately uplifting journey into her mother's past, Gwin, the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Queen ofPalmyra\u003c\/em\u003e, offers both a daughter'ssoulful elegy to the mother who raised her, and a powerful tribute from onestrong female writer to another--the Erin Taylor that Minrosenever knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwin, Minrose:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMinrose Gwin is the author of three novels: \u003cem\u003eThe Queen of Palmyra, \u003c\/em\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; \u003cem\u003ePromise, \u003c\/em\u003efinalist for the Willie Morris Award in Southern Literature; and \u003cem\u003eThe Accidentals\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eIn her memoir, \u003cem\u003eWishing for Snow\u003c\/em\u003e, she writes about the convergence of poetry and psychosis in her mother's life. Wearing another hat, she has written four books of literary and cultural criticism and history, most recently \u003cem\u003eRemembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement, \u003c\/em\u003e and coedited \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the American South, \u003c\/em\u003e a Norton anthology. Minrose began her career as a newspaper reporter. Since then, she has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Like the characters in \u003cem\u003ePromise\u003c\/em\u003e, she grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917426725138,"sku":"9780062046345","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f10718a2-794a-4f1f-8cb3-18af2a3e2c91.jpg?v=1738866950","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wishing-for-snow-9780062046345","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}