{"product_id":"the-celestial-jukebox-paperback","title":"The Celestial Jukebox - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia Shearer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, Cynthia Shearer's \u003ci\u003eThe Celestial Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism--gambling and other vices. Into this world comes Boubacar, a fifteen-year-old African boy joining friends from Mauritania already living in the area. They are new African blacks not especially noteworthy in a town filled with Chinese emigrants, African Americans within memory of slavery, and straggling members of the original white families of the area. Presiding over Madagascar is Angus, the second-generation Delta Chinese proprietor of the Celestial Grocery, and his vintage jukebox with its treasure of Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, and Wanda Jackson songs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ties that bind the lives in this community together are American roots music and the desire to make a home in the rural South. The purity and beauty of Cynthia Shearer's writing--like the purity of music that exists within this story, an imagined soundtrack of more than thirty songs--marks \u003ci\u003eThe Celestial Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e as that most rare book, a novel as historically expansive as it is intimate, filled with music, wisdom, and spontaneous joy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCynthia Shearer is the former curator of Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner, and holds a M.A. in English from the University of Mississippi. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her first novel, \"The Wonder Book of the Air,\" received the 1996 prize for fiction from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 8.98 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689786118207,"sku":"9780820328386","price":36.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6f5e61e09005c437b79da6a30d967693.webp?v=1764986714","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-celestial-jukebox-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}