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"...on top of everything else, the audiobook features a multi-textural and atmospheric full-cast performance...This is a wild, spookily engaging take on a memoir from an iconic writer." -- Paste From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender...

Whether rich or poor, in any era, this is a mammoth task. So, how did Ruth’s grandmother do it in the mid-1950s to the early '80s in rural Jamaica, as a farmer with just a primary school education? What are the secrets of her survival, and how did her children fare in the end? In this inspirational memoir, author C. Ruth Taylor, shares the story of her beloved grandmother, Enid Nelson, who accomplished this extraordinary feat as a single mother. Listen to discover the challenges she encountered and the role of the supernatural in causing her to triumph.

A typical book about an American founding father doesn’t start at a gay piano bar and end in a sewage ditch. But then, Tom Paine isn’t your typical founding father. A firebrand rebel and a radical on the run, Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. In death, his story turns truly bizarre. Shunned as an infidel by every church, he had to be interred in an open field on a New York farm. Ten years later, a former enemy converting to Paine’s cause dug up the bones and carried them back to Britain.