{"product_id":"american-blues-paperback","title":"American Blues - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePolly Hamilton Hilsabeck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA week after Easter 1973--following the lynching of Black church sexton Sam Jefferson--Lily Vida Wallace is dropped like an immigrant into Greenville, South Carolina. After returning home to Manhattan, Lily continues theological studies in anticipation of the overturn of a centuries-old, males-only priesthood and simultaneously struggles with her erratic engagement. When her fiancé flees following discovery of professional impropriety and Atlanta attorney Rodney Davis lands in her path, a new love grows--accelerating Lily's understanding even as it challenges her naïveté about race. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome two decades later, high-profile interracial nuptials in Oakland, California, become the occasion for a reunion between the now Reverend Vida and Lucius Clay, the fiery journalist she met in South Carolina. Within weeks of their re-meeting, Lucius is dispatched to cover Black church burnings--beginning with Lily's hometown in Texas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriter Hilton Als recently commented: \"We need to wake up to the fact that America is not one story. It is many, many, many stories.\" \u003ci\u003eAmerican Blues\u003c\/i\u003e offers no neat resolution. Instead, its timely story invites, as it tangles with, readers' own assumptions and complex experiences of race and gender in America.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698560700479,"sku":"9781647420772","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9532fa63040b8a5de1a8a59ecd6943ba.webp?v=1765010611","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/american-blues-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}