{"product_id":"the-crocodile-bride-9781938235924","title":"The Crocodile Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet during the swampy summer in 1982, this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy as the secrets of their family’s past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip, Louisiana. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring a hot summer of June moods, grubworms, and dark storms, Sunshine discovers stones in her chest – and learns the dangers her coming-of-age will bring about in the yellow house she shares with her father. Without the vocabulary to comprehend Billy’s actions or her own changing body, Sunshine turns to a story passed down through the generations of the Turner family: in the dark waters of the Black Bayou lives a crocodile with an insatiable appetite and a woman with a mysterious healing gift. As Sunshine’s summer unspools, she turns to the one person who will need no explanation of the family secrets she carries—the crocodile bride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Crocodile Bride\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a heartbreakingly tender coming-of-age tale and a lyrical, haunting reflection on generational trauma. Reminiscent of Jesmyn Ward and Helen Oyeyemi, Ashleigh Bell Pedersen is a promising new voice in American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ashleigh Bell Pedersen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284293005563,"sku":"9781938235924","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781938235924.jpg?v=1772488132","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-crocodile-bride-9781938235924","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}