{"product_id":"9781466478381","title":"Mr. J and Moms","description":"The title personalities here are wandering spirits presently operating a Laundromat in a retarded Appalachian community. Mother and son, they have little in common save devotion to one another plus an obligated interest in a town which is by turn comedic, cruel and conniving. The cruelty is offered in part by those residents who are in a larger part inward-looking and feckless. Two of them are a black man and white boy, one who may or may not have killed the other; neither is amicably whole. Other players include a cheating white woman married to the black man; a radio station commentator who encourages infidelity and racism; a sheriff who would rather be a truck driver; a lawyer once disbarred for peddling weapons to North Korea; a doctor who is not a doctor; a band of immigrants involved in a field-labor war; and a very old gremlin who enlists the geography in a quest to find the Booble (the long lost but entirely justified predecessor to the Bible). Mister J and Moms work their way through it with competing objectives. She participates, he merely records. The result is that there is a dreadful truth in the end.","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48508602319089,"sku":"9781466478381","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781466478381_p0.jpg?v=1786091859","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466478381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}