{"product_id":"the-pink-house-rising-up-singing-9798899906190","title":"The Pink House: Rising Up Singing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Pink House \/ Rising Up Singing, memory becomes both landscape and language. This collection of 34 narrative poems traces a childhood and adolescence spent on a remote barrier island along North Carolina's Outer Banks during the 1950s-a time when the coast remained largely untouched, a \"virgin strip of sand\" shaped more by tide and storm than by development. At the center stands the pink house, a place of shelter and fracture, where generations overlap: a grandmother's grounding presence, a mother's quiet endurance, and the tension of a fragile marriage that hums beneath daily life. Around it, the natural world presses close-sand shifting underfoot, dunes breathing, the Atlantic in constant motion, and hurricanes arriving with both violence and strange clarity. These poems move in a connected arc, building a portrait of place that is inseparable from the emotional terrain of growing up. The speaker's voice is distinctly southern-lyrical, reflective, and at times spiritual-attuned to the rhythms of land and family alike. Weather becomes metaphor, the earth a kind of witness, and memory a way of reclaiming what time has altered or erased. More than nostalgia, this collection is an act of preservation. It offers readers-especially those familiar with the Outer Banks-a return to what once was, while inviting all readers to inhabit a world where childhood, nature, and the sacred are deeply intertwined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-18851545\"\u003eTanya K. Young\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899906190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229515043113,"sku":"9798899906190","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/files\/9798899906190.jpg?v=1790359936","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-pink-house-rising-up-singing-9798899906190","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}