{"product_id":"american-blues-paperback","title":"American Blues - 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\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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252283687161,"sku":"9781647420772","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NFE2SGFBT2dQVjN0WTVielpzRkdpUT09.webp?v=1768684987","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/american-blues-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}