{"product_id":"what-mama-told-me-to-david-patrick-sr-curd-9798184945255","title":"What Mama Told Me To Say","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Mama Told Me to Say\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Tallow Creek, Louisiana, some things are mended. Some things are altered. And some things are simply held still until someone is brave enough to let them move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirdie Calhoun has spent her whole life running her late grandmother's alteration shop the way she's run everything else - quietly, carefully, and according to rules she never wrote. She knows how to fix a hem, how to keep a secret, and how to say the sentence she was taught to say whenever anyone asked about her mother, Lena, who died when Birdie was a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when an old tin surfaces with a disputed claim attached to it, and a folded grocery list resurfaces with one word circled in pencil, Birdie begins pulling at threads she was never supposed to touch. The women of Tallow Creek - her aunt Darlene, the church choir, the families who have brought her their dresses and their grief for thirty years - all know pieces of what happened to Lena. None of them have ever said all of it out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Birdie moves closer to the truth her grandmother spent decades keeping folded away, she has to decide something harder than what happened to her mother: what she is willing to carry forward, what she is finally willing to let go of, and what she will choose to say in her own words, for the first time in her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Mama Told Me to Say\u003c\/i\u003e is a quiet, devastating Southern novel about inheritance, memory, and the small, ordinary objects - a needle, a Bible, a list on a windowsill - that hold a family together long after the people who made them are gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can't always choose what you remember. But you can choose what you keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Patrick Sr. Curd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184945255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"David Patrick Sr. Curd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174091628799,"sku":"9798184945255","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-mama-told-me-to-david-patrick-sr-curd-9798184945255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}