{"product_id":"running-on-red-dog-road-and-other-perils-of-an-appalachian-childhood","title":"Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn't. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it red dog. Grandma told me, Don't you go running on that red dog road. But I do.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRunning On Red Dog Road\u003c\/em\u003e is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0310344964\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780310344964\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Berkheimer, Drema Hall\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Zondervan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Zondervan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2016)","offer_id":46356723794117,"sku":"9780310344964","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780310344964.jpg?v=1781310100","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/running-on-red-dog-road-and-other-perils-of-an-appalachian-childhood","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}