{"product_id":"book-gcnx","title":"The Beak in the Heart: True Tales of Misfit Southern Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVivid, dramatic portraits of the author's \"misfit\" female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a \"proper Southern woman.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beak in the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir of growing up \"Southern.\" Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of women who preceded her-misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and concubine to her third great uncle, Rosalee, a great aunt committed to the state hospital for forty years, and Louise, an aunt who unwittingly married a gay man at a time when divorce was not legal in South Carolina. She also shares candid details of her rebellious youth and her own struggles with marriage and parenthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger-their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant-restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beak in the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49421585973552,"sku":"BDgcnx","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gcnx-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773481254","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gcnx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}