{"product_id":"ghostbread-paperback","title":"Ghostbread - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonja Livingston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.\" \u003ci\u003eGhostbread\u003c\/i\u003e makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape the life of a girl growing up in poverty during the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood, Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from one ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something better. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the way, the young Sonja observes the harsh realities her family encounters, as well as small moments of transcendent beauty that somehow keep them going. While struggling to make sense of her world, Livingston perceives the stresses and patterns that keep children--girls in particular--trapped in the cycle of poverty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLarger cultural experiences such as her love for Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew and her experiences with the Girl Scouts and Roman Catholicism inform this lyrical memoir. Livingston firmly eschews sentimentality, offering instead a meditation on what it \u003ci\u003emeans\u003c\/i\u003e to hunger and showing that poverty can strengthen the spirit just as surely as it can grind it down.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonja Livingston has earned a NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Award, and Pushcart Prize nomination for her nonfiction writing. Her work has appeared in several textbooks on writing, as well as many journals, including the \"Iowa Review,\" \"Spoon River Poetry Review,\" \"Alaska Quarterly Review,\" \"AGNI,\" and others. She holds an M.S. Ed. from SUNY Brockport and an MFA from the University of New Orleans. Livingston teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180364251385,"sku":"9780820336879","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/d1Nqamx0UFVZYnZraEZySm5GUkVpZz09.webp?v=1767737232","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ghostbread-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}