{"product_id":"the-weight-of-the-light-1","title":"The Weight of the Light","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The land remembers who it feeds and who it buries.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is my family's story. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of it actually happened.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy grandfather, Henry Cleghorn, farmed red clay dirt in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, alongside a Black sharecropper named Lee Lowe for four decades. In 1927, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in his yard because he'd treated Lee's family decently. Henry didn't join them. He didn't leave. He stayed on that land and kept working beside the same man the next morning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy father grew up watching that. It marked him in ways he carried for his whole life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Weight of the Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel built from those years — the Depression, two wars, the Jim Crow South in all its grinding ordinary brutality, and the strange, stubborn bond between two families the world said shouldn't have one. It's about what it costs to do the right thing in a place that charges you for it. About the secrets people keep, not out of cowardice but out of love. About a silver dollar that passed between working men's hands and turned up bloodstained in a Montgomery drawer thirty years later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy grandfather and Lee Lowe are both gone. My father is too. I grew up hearing pieces of this — never the whole thing, never all at once.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis novel is me finally putting it together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are all gone. This novel remains...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45917365960895,"sku":"efe283ce-1de0-42a0-b8e0-b9e900e22d78","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/defa69b985a0b2a80d354df8c09be850.jpg?v=1785101114","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/the-weight-of-the-light-1","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}