{"product_id":"coffee-will-make-you-black-9781504058520","title":"Coffee Will Make You Black","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago\" by an author who \"writes like Terry McMillan's kid sister\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this hilarious and insightful coming-of-age novel, author April Sinclair introduces the charming Jean \"Stevie\" Stevenson, a young woman raised on Chicago's South Side during an era of irrevocable social upheaval.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Curious and witty, bold but na ve, Stevie grows up debating the qualities of good hair and dark skin. As the years pass, her family and neighborhood are changed by the times, from the War on Poverty to race riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from \"Black Is Beautiful\" to Black Power. Against this remarkable backdrop, Stevie makes the sometimes harrowing, often comic, always enthralling transformation into a young adult--socially aware, discovering her sexuality, and proud of her identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Whether she's dealing with a subject as monumental as the civil rights movement or as intimate as Stevie's first sexual encounters,\" writes the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \"Sinclair never fails to make you laugh and never sacrifices the narrative to make a point.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and named a best book of the year in young adult fiction by the American Library Association, \u003ci\u003eCoffee Will Make You Black\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite portrait of adolescence that will resonate with readers of all ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Road Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781504058520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e78281 \/ Coffee Will Make You Black\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.2 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 9\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"April Sinclair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36655199879324,"sku":"9781504058520","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/coffee-will-make-you-black-9781504058520","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}