{"product_id":"a-virtuous-woman-by-kaye-gibbons","title":"A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \"vivid, unsentimental, powerful\" portrait of a Southern marriage by the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e–bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEllen Foster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\"She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for green peas . . .\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRuby Stokes has died too young and left her husband, Blinking Jack, behind. With alternating entries from each of them, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Virtuous Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e recounts the tale of their years together in an \"exquisitely realised piece of writing\" (Elizabeth Buchan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mail on Sunday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom their very different backgrounds—Ruby a daughter of wealth, Jack a penniless tenant farmer—to their relationships with their landlord and his family, and the strength they drew from each other in the face of hardship, this story of a marriage is \"full of fantastically gritty metaphors . . . A book that will change your dreams\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Gibbons again flawlessly reproduces the humor and idiom of rural eastern North Carolina.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trailhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44166550192308,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/2746\/1812\/files\/744642A2-926D-4A15-B416-83394EE51D65.jpg?v=1774028140","url":"https:\/\/trailheadbooks.com\/products\/a-virtuous-woman-by-kaye-gibbons","provider":"Trailhead Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}