{"product_id":"the-pink-house-rising-up-singing-paperback","title":"The Pink House: Rising Up Singing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTanya K. Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 44\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54090523640115,"sku":"9798899906190","price":26.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HaB4USCBZn9798899906190.webp?v=1789606279","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-pink-house-rising-up-singing-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}