{"product_id":"miss-emmas-regret-9798256044626","title":"Miss Emma's Regret","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jo Anne Barnes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Jo Anne Barnes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Jo Anne Barnes\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe danced when the church told her to stop, married a near stranger on impulse to escape her overbearing father, and built a dairy farm from nothing. Now at eighty-seven, Emma Sullivan Sharpe faces her toughest opponent yet: her five remaining daughters. As the pressure to move her to a nursing home reaches a fever pitch, Emma retreats to the only place they can't find her-the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, in the red dirt of early twentieth century Mississippi, a younger Emma comes alive-the teenager expelled from her church, the girl who married at sixteen to escape her father and paid for it in quiet ways for decades. Based on a true story. the intergenerational tension between a mother who has survived everything and daughters worn down by caregiving is both tender and painfully real. Now Emma must decide what her stubbornness is costing the people she loves most. \u003cem\u003eMiss Emma's Regret \u003c\/em\u003eis a richly layered novel about memory, motherhood, and the truths families tell themselves when the real truth is too much to bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of Southern literary fiction and emotionally rich family dramas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jo Anne Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890641289367,"sku":"9798256044626","price":1766.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798256044626.webp?v=1781180794","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/miss-emmas-regret-9798256044626","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}