{"product_id":"book-ghpq","title":"Cinder Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCinder Girl\u003c\/em\u003e sits in the rarest class of memoir-a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eGrowing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eBut unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eTwo decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouri-and indeed, the entire nation-all while never forgetting where she came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAs a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in \u003cem\u003eCinder Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, Rehder rises above standard political prose to provide an unvarnished look inside the worst of American poverty--those living in the margins. Rehder challenges us to recall the plight of those far less fortunate, who struggle without the opportunities most of us take for granted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49357943374128,"sku":"BDghpq","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49357943439664,"sku":"ZEghpq","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49357943406896,"sku":"ZMghpq","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ghpq-cover.jpg?v=1761184167","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ghpq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}