{"product_id":"the-songs-of-betty-baach-paperback-softback-9781625347305","title":"The Songs of Betty Baach (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625347305","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Songs of Betty Baach\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGlenn Taylor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625347305\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 38 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.4 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.159 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e “‘Bend me your ear and I'll tell you a story about everything,’ begins the wondrous \u003ci\u003eSongs of Betty Baach\u003c\/i\u003e. A genre-bender, this illustrated book spans the complexity of the world: Is it a collection, novel, parable, song cycle? Our guide here speaks with such knowing, witty, sorrowing wisdom, the voice becomes both urgent and inevitable, hallmarks of our greatest literature.”—Edie Meidav, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Love Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “Brilliant. Taylor’s tuned to a visionary frequency you’ve never heard or imagined. Get ready to fly.”—Ann Pancake, author of \u003ci\u003eMe and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Glenn Taylor has one of the best ears in all of American literature. His is a rowdy, rooted, tender troubadour poet's heart.\"—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of \u003ci\u003eI Love You but I've Chosen Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSome called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she’d always say. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in West Virginia, \u003ci\u003eThe Songs of Betty Baach\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which to fortify oneself. The lives of the Baaches of Keystone and the Knoxes of Mosestown twist and connect in a tale of survival and retribution that crosses three centuries—moving from Betty’s girlhood in colonial America to a future warped by environmental collapse and political unrest. Refusing the erasure of the lives of women, Indigenous peoples, and Black people who have always called this region home, this eloquent and distinctive novel is a necessary remedy for the continued distortion of a land and its inhabitants.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681244147992,"sku":"9781625347305","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-songs-of-betty-baach-paperback-softback-9781625347305","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}