{"product_id":"billie-girl-vickie-weaver-9781935248125","title":"Billie Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Honestly strange and strangely honest. . . . Remarkably compelling and powerful. Weaver's authenticity of characters, situations, and bygone eras emanates from sheer originality of style. This amazing novel is a stellar achievement--gritty, funny, fresh, and bold. It will make your eyes bug out and your pulse race. And how it \u003ci\u003eshines\u003c\/i\u003e, shines with humanity!\"--\u003cb\u003eSena Jeter Naslund, author of \u003ci\u003eAhab's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Southern Gothic to the core, suffused with a humor as dark as the bottom of a Georgia well. . . .Weaver has stepped forward for the benefit of anyone who reads American fiction.\"--\u003cb\u003eKirby Gann, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Napoleon in Rags\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Savagely funny, wildly ambitious. . . . A bawdy, brutal, and beautiful meditation on identity, sex, and mercy. Weaver has a fiercely distinctive vision.\"--\u003cb\u003eK.L. Cook, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from Charnelle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Darkly comic, deeply poignant. . . . Billie Girl is the adventurer through a long, strange trip that is life itself.\"--\u003cb\u003eRoy Hoffman, author of \u003ci\u003eChicken Dreaming Corn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned as in infant because of her incessant crying, Billie Girl is raised by two women who are brothers. Her life, a gender-bending puzzle filled with dark humor, is a series of encounters with strangers who struggle along with what they are given: a bigamist husband, a long-lost daughter named after a car, a lesbian preacher's wife, a platonic second husband who loved her adoptive father. Twin themes of sexuality and euthanasia run throughout. In a journey from hard-dirt Georgia farm to end-of-life nursing home, Billie Girl comes to understand the mercy of killing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vickie Weaver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193524812X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935248125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leapfrog Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2010","brand":"Vickie Weaver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075169513727,"sku":"9781935248125","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af3f1e45-f643-4a2a-8873-5f9ae53ae7a3.jpg?v=1685458004","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/billie-girl-vickie-weaver-9781935248125","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}