{"product_id":"one-mississippi-book-mark-childress-9780316012119","title":"One Mississippi","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter - big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted. -\u003cem\u003eNew Orleans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Times-Picayune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eCrazy in Alabama\u003c\/em\u003e tells an uproarious and moving story about family, best friends, first love, and surviving the scariest years of your life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, \u003cem\u003eThe Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, \u003c\/em\u003e and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Wise, riveting, hilarious, painful, gentle, and ferocious, \u003cem\u003eOne Mississippi \u003c\/em\u003eis a wonderful read. -Anne Lamott\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Tilt-a-Whirl that flings the reader from comedy to calamity. . . . Childress is a fabulist in the manner of John Irving. -\u003cem\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Journal-Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By turns rollicking and troubling, as provocative as it is droll, \u003cem\u003eOne Mississippi \u003c\/em\u003eis about as easy to resist as a riptide. This critic's advice is to go with its powerful flow. -\u003cem\u003eRaleigh\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eNews \u0026amp; Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591925637393,"sku":"GOR012950557","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50451373195537,"sku":"CIN0316012114G","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50699757191441,"sku":"CIN0316012114VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316012114.jpg?v=1751038366","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/one-mississippi-book-mark-childress-9780316012119","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}