{"product_id":"why-beulah-shot-her-pistol-inside-the-baptist-church","title":"Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church","description":"Raised in the Primitive Baptist Church  Beulah Buchanan at age 16 marries the much older deacon Ralph Rainey to escape from her oppressive parents  thus jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Over the next six years  Beulah works in her domineering husbands cafe all day and cooks him dinner at home every night  dutifully attends church  and falls into an affair with the preacher. When she embarrasses her husband by not cooking enough food for the ravenous visiting revival preacher  Ralph \"chastises\" Beulah with his belt. When he tries to beat her again on another occasion  she fights back and locks him in the cooler at his cafe  where he freezes to death. This sounds like and is a Southern Gothic tragedy  but it is told in Beulahs voice  which is innocently hilarious. Beulah is an original  but readers who liked Clyde Edgertons Raney and Mark Childresss Crazy in Alabama will hear familiar echoes of those Southern women protagonists.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44853873606709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1588381676","price":90.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1588381676_c5d36721-2051-4a44-895e-427c7f5956f3.jpg?v=1770372236","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-beulah-shot-her-pistol-inside-the-baptist-church","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}