{"product_id":"the-descendants-of-the-pirate-alec-clayton-9780980032239","title":"The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson was said to have fathered children with women in every major city along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the most famous of which was New Orleans madame Matilda Gertrude Hildegarde Duchamp who went by Gertie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson \u003c\/em\u003etraces the lives\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eof Pegleg and Gertie's many descendants, beginning with their grandson Hairless Harlan Johnson, whose wife was mauled by a tiger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter migrating from the swamplands of South Louisiana to Seattle and Olympia, Washington, Harlan's many children and grandchildren get together every summer at a resort on Orcas Island where all hell breaks loose as brothers and sisters learn anew how to love one another despite it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet to know the crazy Johnson family from Hairless Harlan to Billy, the oldest who has never fit in, to Lizzy the dancer, to Larry the now New York citified artist whom everyone loves; to sensible Eva and her wife Helen; to Renae and Sally, the other lesbian couple in the family; and to Bryce the football player and history professor who tried to eat a hat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson\u003c\/em\u003e is fiction as true to life as it is absurd, as realistic as it is comical. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alec Clayton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0980032237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780980032239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mud Flat Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Alec Clayton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419830927615,"sku":"9780980032239","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d788f39e-ce6f-4367-9eca-bd05d79b433f.jpg?v=1761514124","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-descendants-of-the-pirate-alec-clayton-9780980032239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}