{"product_id":"bicentennial-baby-9798996186716","title":"Bicentennial Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe was born on the Fourth of July, 1976. The nurse tied a scrap of red-white-and-blue ribbon to her hospital bracelet and called her a firecracker. Her mother took her home to the holler and raised her on two rules: have something that's yours, and don't need anybody.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years later, Lacey Brummett is still trying to figure out how to do both. She has a teenage son, an almost-marriage that never quite became one, and a career in music she's all but abandoned. When her mother collapses three days before Christmas, Lacey drives home to Pound, Virginia - to a hospital room, a childhood house, and a drawer full of songs nobody knew her mother had written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat she finds there makes her question every story she's been telling herself: about the father she lost, the mother who stayed, the man she's been waiting on, and the music she left behind. Across three generations of women - Bea, Gina, and Lacey - runs the same inheritance: survival handed down in place of tenderness, armor handed down in place of warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBicentennial Baby\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary Appalachian novel about inherited patterns, the cost of hope, and what a woman has to lay down at a grave before she can finally carry anything else. For readers of \u003cem\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOur Souls at Night\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reagan Boggs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996186716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Reagan Boggs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801392935093,"sku":"9798996186716","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bicentennial-baby-9798996186716","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}