{"product_id":"temple-folk-paperback","title":"Temple Folk - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaliyah Bilal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"splendid and grand collection\" (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize--winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Known World\u003c\/i\u003e) portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTemple Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten \"beautiful and vivid\" (Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award--winning and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author) stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Due North,\" an obedient daughter struggles to understand why she's haunted by the spirit of her recently deceased father. In \"Who's Down?\" a father, after a brief affair with vegetarianism, conspires with his daughter to order him a double cheeseburger. In \"Candy for Hanif\" a mother's routine trip to the store for her disabled son takes an unlikely turn when she reflects on a near-death experience. In \"Woman in Niqab,\" a daughter's suspicion of her father's infidelity prompts her to wear her hair in public. In \"New Mexico,\" a federal agent tasked with spying on a high-ranking member of the Nation of Islam grapples with his responsibilities closer to home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an unflinching eye for the contradictions between what these characters profess to believe and what they do, \u003ci\u003eTemple Folk\u003c\/i\u003e accomplishes the rare feat of presenting moral failures with compassion, nuance, and humor to remind us that while perfection is what many of us strive for, it's the errors that make us human.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159345528895,"sku":"9781982191825","price":21.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/KtFy7-hR-P9781982191825.webp?v=1776997688","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/temple-folk-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}