{"product_id":"cant-quit-you-baby-ellen-douglas-9780140121025","title":"Can't Quit You, Baby","description":"\"It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet, her housekeeper, is a poor, black, world-weary woman with a ghost-ridden past. As the years go by, Cornelia and Tweet each endure moments of uncertainty and despair; each, in her time of need, is rescued by the other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the footsteps of Southern writers like Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Douglas celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit in this story of two women bound by transgression and guilt, memory and illusion, gratitude and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ellen Douglas is not just one of our best Southern novelists. She is one of our best American novelists.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen Douglas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140121021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140121025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.11w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/1989","brand":"Ellen Douglas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46216949825791,"sku":"9780140121025","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c05fd100-2e3f-48d3-84e5-1a6d2bd5db4d.jpg?v=1728513841","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cant-quit-you-baby-ellen-douglas-9780140121025","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}