{"product_id":"my-mothers-house-david-armand-9781680030730","title":"My Mother's House: A Memoir","description":"Set in the bucolic, yet brutal South of his youth, \u003ci\u003eMy Mother's House\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir by novelist David Armand. It recounts the young author's early memories of being born to a schizophrenic mother, then given up for adoption, only to be raised in a home with an alcoholic and abusive step-father. In this sharply-remembered portrait of the people and places that shaped him, Armand paints his seemingly negative experiences with a sympathetic and understanding brush. As the reader follows Armand through his childhood and later into adult life--when he is reunited with his mother after she makes a failed suicide attempt--a surprisingly new world of hope and possibility is rendered, despite the overwhelming challenges of this reunion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [Armand's] writing is reminiscent of Hemingway: straightforward descriptions of manly action punctuated by laconic dialogue.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Armand writes in a comfortingly familiar literary voice that blends Ernest Hemingway's laconic but rhythmically complicated explorations of the mysteries of masculinity with William Faulkner's more fabulist, Southern Gothic twang. It's a heady, seductively intoxicating combination.\"--\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Armand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680030736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680030730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"David Armand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937163641087,"sku":"9781680030730","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_067157d1-36e7-4501-833b-597586cb813e.jpg?v=1681428540","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-mothers-house-david-armand-9781680030730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}