{"product_id":"the-ponder-heart","title":"The Ponder Heart","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e“A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of\u003cem\u003e Delta Wedding (The New York Times).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized.\u003cbr\u003eFoolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink — one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it.\u003cbr\u003e“The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,” said The New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart — a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series — as “Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.”","brand":"Eudora Welty","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53149979148579,"sku":"9780156729154","price":10.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780156729154.jpg?v=1741147602","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/the-ponder-heart","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}