{"product_id":"the-healing-years-a-novel","title":"The Healing Years: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of a woman in rural North Carolina who grows up in hard times, endures many sorrows, but persists to become a respected healer in her community. A woman of great wisdom and strength, who through her healing years she helps many people, and eventually discovers how to heal her own heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eREVIEW:\u003cbr\u003e\nÒIt immediately draws from me the adjective 'genuine.'\u003cbr\u003e\nRuby is a wonderful creation, maybe a mosaic of more than one\u003cbr\u003e\nwoman. She has Ôthe giftÕ all right Ð not only for healing with\u003cbr\u003e\nroots and herbs and wise counsel Ð but also for patience and for\u003cbr\u003e\nlove and steady affection. Such upright characters are\u003cbr\u003e\nhard to draw convincingly; they go against the grain\u003cbr\u003e\nof our skepticism. But when you get them right,\u003cbr\u003e\nthey are strong. What you have here is strong,\u003cbr\u003e\na memoir-chronicle about a kind of community\u003cbr\u003e\nand a way of life not so well known anymore.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe ÔretreatÕ to yard and garden at the end\u003cbr\u003e\nis a kind of saintly benediction.Ó\u003cbr\u003e\n~ Fred Chappell, poet, novelist, teacher;\u003cbr\u003e\nPoet Laureate of N.C. (1997-2002)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44365347684513,"sku":"9781684700363","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1e4en4m4-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1716494499","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-healing-years-a-novel","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}