{"product_id":"the-journey-to-mara-prose-mara-prose-9798883473509","title":"The Journey to Mara Prose: A Poetic Testimonial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEveryone asks why she stayed. No one asks who taught her to wait.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore he ever said hello, she was already fluent in the only love she'd been taught: the kind that calls but never comes. A fourteen-year-old girl in her good shoes, standing at a window, giving every passing headlight her father's face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat girl grew up. And the man who found her knew exactly what he'd found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Journey to Mara Prose: A Poetic Testimonial\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBook One of the Mara Prose series\u003c\/b\u003e, is memoir told the way no one dares to tell it: as evidence. In poems that read like a psychological thriller, Mara Prose traces how a girl becomes the perfect target long before the predator arrives. The childhood that trained her to carry everything. The family that called her difficult for sounding the alarm. The community that named her lucky while her body screamed \u003ci\u003enot this\u003c\/i\u003e. The two weddings she called off. The four ultimatums that cornered her yes. And the wedding day her own memory refuses to hold, where the groom had to walk the aisle to collect a bride whose spirit had already left the building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about a woman who didn't see the signs. \u003cb\u003eThis is the story of a woman who saw every one of them, and the world that taught her to apologize for looking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in layers that reward every reread, these poems hide their revelations the way her marriage hid its truth: in plain sight. The disappearances that always ended exactly when her healing began. The rescues that arrived for emergencies he created. The love that came beautifully wrapped, with nothing at the center. By the final section, you won't be reading her story. You'll be a witness to it. And witnesses can be called on later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor every woman who was handed a life and told it was a gift. For every reader who has ever been loved in the lobby and laughed at in the vault. For every book club ready for the discussion that follows the women home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe testimony stops where the truth changes questions, and one eye, long closed, finally opens. What that woman does next is another book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one is where it all began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet the record show.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook One includes a full author's reflection and \"Questions for the Women at the Table,\" a complete book club discussion guide. The journey continues in Book Two: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Woman I Answer to Now\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mara Prose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798883473509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Mara Prose","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173937783039,"sku":"9798883473509","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-journey-to-mara-prose-mara-prose-9798883473509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}