{"title":"Nicole Sarrocco","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"lit-by-lightning-an-occasionally-true-account-of-one-girls-dust-ups-with-ghosts-electricity-and-grannys-ashes-paperback","title":"Lit by Lightning: An Occasionally True Account of One Girl's Dust-ups with Ghosts, Electricity, and Granny's Ashes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom North Carolina comes the electrifying new voice of Nicole Sarrocco, whose debut novel \u003cem\u003eLit by Lightning\u003c\/em\u003e--first in the \u003cem\u003eOccasionally True\u003c\/em\u003eseries--is an intensely personal and strangely universal tale of finding grace in chaos, creating meaning from nonsense, and for heaven's sake not making too much of a spectacle of yourself. A witty, hilarious, transcendent and disturbing tale of ghosts, manners, and the family we choose and the ones who choose us. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I could sweep together the dust of our hearts. \u003cem\u003eThe ashes of my grandparents' house that didn't burn. The complete fire that is death. The charred wood and the pulverized concrete and the souls of a million barbecued pigs. The dust in the corners of basements. Everything that isn't the fire itself, the movement through the wires. All of it rolled up together and shot into the sky, into a firework--that's a song you could sing out over the radio. The ones on the other side can hear us, then. If we can roll all of it together and name it out loud, send it out into space on transmitters or something--then they could hear us. If they can hear us, then we'd be able to hear them, too. That makes sense, doesn't it?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68226023489759,"sku":"9781633980006","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DFzFwfg7Zb9781633980006.webp?v=1792598047"},{"product_id":"ill-mannered-ghosts-an-occasionally-true-account-of-hillbilly-stonehenge-occult-cleaning-products-the-lady-in-the-picture-and-the-bloodcurdling-ta-paperback","title":"Ill-Mannered Ghosts: An Occasionally True Account of Hillbilly Stonehenge, Occult Cleaning Products, the Lady in the Picture, and the Bloodcurdling Ta - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes, the walls can talk. And the stories they tell are usually the last thing you were expecting. For Nicole, whip-smart and happily married mother of two, the stories are everywhere--emanating from the old family land, leaping out of old photographs, trailing her in a field at midnight--and the trick is to sort out which ones need listening to and which ones just need a good telling-off.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The bizarrely hilarious misadventures of one woman's sometimes ghostly experiences that began in \"Lit by Lightning\" continue in \"Ill-Mannered Ghosts,\" and if it's possible, the tales just get stranger. Prompted by an out-of-the-blue phone call one autumn day, Nicole returns to the scene of a series of bizarre historical occurrences--her childhood home. What ensues is an adventure in mental spelunking that threatens to destabilize her whole family as they move \"back to the old homeplace\" to face down the demons of chaos and just plain weirdness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The second book in this unforgettable series is another disturbingly enjoyable journey to the madly brilliant world of North Carolina author Nicole Sarrocco. Family, spirits, and plain folks jostle for attention in a jarringly-real-meets-chaotically-dreamlike story that can only be called Occasionally True. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68226024046815,"sku":"9781633980358","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/njvNCvmpFP9781633980358.webp?v=1792598051"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nicole-sarrocco.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}