{"product_id":"9781948598835","title":"Outcasts of Essex","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssex, New Hampshire, April 1775.\u003c\/b\u003e Fifteen-year-old Sarah Barrett hates the mess of childbirth, yet she's the unwilling apprentice to the town's only midwife-her mother. She longs to be a writer like her father, who publishes the weekly \u003ci\u003eEssex Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. As the American Revolution heats up, his pro-British views turn the town against the family. Troubles deepen when a smallpox epidemic hits the town, and her mother pushes a crude, controversial inoculation. Sarah finds herself questioning everything: the fight for independence, her father's judgment, her own failings, and more to the point, why it's considered unthinkable for a young woman to write for a newspaper. When she learns the redcoats and the patriots will soon clash over a stockpile of munitions in Essex, she comes up with a risky plan to thwart the bloodbath.","brand":"Open Books Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43085214777405,"sku":"9781948598835","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781948598835_p0.jpg?v=1775258660","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781948598835","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}