{"product_id":"tiny-little-earthquakes-paperback","title":"Tiny Little Earthquakes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Seen On Good Morning America, Robin Roberts calls it a \"page-turner.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her portraits of her privilege-blind and tormented family members...are unflinching but empathetic, and her dark sense of humor is a vivifying force across the story's often troubled territory.\" Foreword Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElliot Hase is a sharp, observant nine-year-old girl growing up on a horse farm in 1980s North Carolina, where the adults are far less stable than the barn animals. Her mother, a charismatic alcoholic with a flair for drama and denial, careens through life in a haze of wine and self-pity. Her father, a distant doctor with a new family and a wife who rewrites history, offers more guilt than guidance. Caught between the two is Poppy-Elliot's older sister, partner-in-crime, and cautionary tale-whose battles with addiction and self-destruction echo through Elliot's own attempts to break the cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Elliot navigates funerals, failed interventions, AA and Al Anon meetings, and an elite boarding school that teaches more about co-dependency than calculus, she slowly begins to question not just the people raising her, but the identity she's been forced to adopt to survive them. Her coming-of-age is shaped by secrets she didn't ask for, betrayals she doesn't deserve, and moments of brutal clarity that land like aftershocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central conflict is Elliot's internal struggle to define herself apart from the chaos of her family-trying to reconcile loyalty to her mother and sister with self-preservation, and survival with healing. Through humor, heartbreak, and sheer stubbornness, she learns that resilience isn't about being unbreakable-it's about breaking and rebuilding, again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102299918559,"sku":"9798993429212","price":27.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/A91AmMWyVA9798993429212.webp?v=1781079309","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/tiny-little-earthquakes-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}