{"product_id":"mud-and-meltdown","title":"Mud and Meltdown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Mitchell family is falling apart — and they're doing it with impressive efficiency. Dad eats dinner in his car like a fugitive. Mom's pottery keeps exploding off the wheel. The seventeen-year-old is self-medicating with cigarettes and bass-heavy music. The fourteen-year-old has built an entire identity out of Instagram likes. And the twelve-year-old is so quiet the family once drove to school without him. Twice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Aunt Ruth dies and leaves her mountain cottage to the family with one impossible condition — one month, all five of them, no phones, no work, no escape — the Mitchells are forced to do the one thing they've been avoiding for years: be in the same room together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat follows is a month of terrible pottery, spectacular arguments, awkward prayers, and the slow, painful, hilarious discovery that broken families can be remade — if they're willing to sit at the wheel and let the Potter do His work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA satirical companion to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eClay and Spirit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this novel takes every earnest moment and adds a punchline — because sometimes the hardest truths go down easier with a laugh. Same faith. Same family. Same pottery metaphors. Just funnier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor anyone who has ever been trapped in a car with their family for more than three hours and lived to tell the tale.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CTM Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44370512117844,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/0030\/0628\/files\/mudbc.jpg?v=1774016664","url":"https:\/\/ctmpublishing.org\/products\/mud-and-meltdown","provider":"CTM Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}