{"product_id":"books-whistling-past-the-graveyard-by-susan-crandall","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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673018720529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781476740041_34d8befa-1c91-41e9-9e7b-bc2303c39f7e.jpg?v=1781522419","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-whistling-past-the-graveyard-by-susan-crandall","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}