{"product_id":"flying-shoes-book-lisa-howorth-9781620403037","title":"Flying Shoes","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family-and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Howorth's remarkable \u003ci\u003eFlying Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, \u003ci\u003eFlying Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394940014865,"sku":"CIN162040303XA","price":4.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/162040303X.jpg?v=1751057331","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/flying-shoes-book-lisa-howorth-9781620403037","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}