{"product_id":"worth-burning-162557181x","title":"Worth Burning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162557181X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kennedy, Mickie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searing portrait of survival, Worth Burning traces a boys journey from a turbulent Southern childhood-marked by parental abuse, death, and hidden queerness-through the AIDS crisis, a marriage of convenience, and finally, towards a rugged self-acceptance haunted by the past.Worth Burning crackles with the heat of a burn barrel. With a novelists attention to character and narrative trajectory, Mickie Kennedy glides through four decades beginning with the random hit-and-run that kills the young speakers father. The mothers mourning curdles, grief becomes addiction, and addiction becomes abuse-emotional, physical, and sexual-as mother and son persist, locked in a monstrously confused togetherness further complicated by the speakers hidden gayness, in a small Southern town.Through searing confession and stark image-making, Kennedy excavates the contours of a life that persistently bends, against all odds, toward a ramshackle wholeness. Suffused with efficient, image-rich narrative poems, Kennedys debut is at once sweeping and intimate, like a love note passed in secret.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52180206715168,"sku":"NEW162557181X","price":21.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/7110ICA54aL.jpg?v=1786540899","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/worth-burning-162557181x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}