{"product_id":"a-place-called-sweet-shrub-9781574410792","title":"A Place Called Sweet Shrub","description":"Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Train to Estellin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Called Sweet Shrub\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance a Little Longer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Lucinda \"Lucy\" Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic. Lucy is feisty, funny, and completely open-armed about life. Josh passionately confronts danger and greed and prejudice with courage and humor and, sometimes, with bare fists. Even the minor characters are so rife with color that you first turn the pages quickly to see what they will do next and, then, you turn them slowly so as to savor each page of this remarkable trilogy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1915 it has been three years since Lucy Richards left her teaching post in West Texas and returned home where she is busy being indispensable to her eccentric mother, keeping her Aunt Catherine comfortable, and taking on many of the chores her very pregnant sister no longer feels up to. She decides to choose a husband from the local beaus, but none of them stand a chance when handsome, irreverent Josh Arnold comes to town. The newlyweds move to the sleepy hamlet of Sweet Shrub, Arkansas, where they are soon caught up in the lives of their neighbors and discover that the surface tranquility of the town hides simmering tensions and unrest that will inevitably result in tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574410792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.58w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/22\/1999 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2000 pg. 159\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jane Roberts Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43673010634933,"sku":"9781574410792","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_12e1e653-28d4-44c0-8e97-7a0b976ae44c.jpg?v=1709052869","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-place-called-sweet-shrub-9781574410792","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}