{"product_id":"when-things-get-worst-9781550969955","title":"When Things Get Worst","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen Things Get Worst \u003c\/em\u003eis the story of a young woman from a world of horse dealers and stone pickers, religious zealots, and gratuitous killers.  It is the evocative tale of those who, having lost everything else, retain their dignity in a declining, often dissolute world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunted by death and her local history, by religious ecstatics and cynics of the Word, by the repressed who are raping the countryside, as if farms were no more than gravel orchards, this young woman continues to move forward. In the face of the vengeance that others are wreaking on life, she never loses faith in herself, her family, or in the earth, on whose behalf she finally, in a moment of apocalypse, acts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSensual and perfectly pitched in its depiction of thought in a language that is specific to the rhythms of southwestern Ontario, \u003cem\u003eWhen Things Get Worst\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving, lyrical testimony to the force of the human spirit.","brand":"Exile Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515855724887,"sku":"9781550969955","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-things-get-worst-9781550969955","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}