{"product_id":"mary-emma-company","title":"Mary Emma \u0026 Company","description":"The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. \"Mother\" in \u003ci\u003eLittle Britches\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMan of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called \"Little Britches,\" comes into his own. The family's run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Emma \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/i\u003e continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with \u003ci\u003eLittle Britches\u003c\/i\u003e and runs through \u003ci\u003eMan of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Home Ranch\u003c\/i\u003e. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has \u003ci\u003eThe Fields of Home\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515363176697,"sku":"9780803282117","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_c2cc0e8f-fd06-4f50-8ce0-8588207c1ef8.jpg?v=1781207636","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/mary-emma-company","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}