{"product_id":"9780310344964_running-on-red-dog-road","title":"Running on Red Dog Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn't. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it red dog. Grandma told me, Don't you go running on that red dog road. But I do.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRunning On Red Dog Road\u003c\/em\u003e is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drema Hall Berkheimer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40702233870385,"sku":"9780310344964","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9926\/3793\/files\/9780310344964.jpg?v=1780471109","url":"https:\/\/bakerbookhouse.com\/products\/9780310344964_running-on-red-dog-road","provider":"Baker Book House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}