{"product_id":"american-blues-9781647420772","title":"American Blues","description":"A 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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e She Writes Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647420772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.20d","brand":"Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41968293576885,"sku":"9781647420772","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8f342b76-256d-466d-8a59-ea6019f1fad0.jpg?v=1647956668","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/american-blues-9781647420772","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}