{"product_id":"2940016451992","title":"Sugaree Rising","description":"\"Up and down the River Road the next day, and back into the sand-lanes spreading out their long fingers across Yelesaw Neck from the settlements down to the ricefields, they talked about Bonk Jackson's news about the damming of the river and the coming of the lake, and what might come of it, and what could be done. There were many on the Neck who worked in cabin and yard and field with eyes darting back and forth between the river and the Swamp and the sky, as if they were afraid the floodwaters were already on their way and would roar out over them from one direction or the other, suddenlike, without warning, and overwhelm them before they could scramble to higher ground. As if there was any higher ground on Yelesaw Neck, and not just low ground and lower.\" (from the novel \"Sugaree Rising\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 80 years since the the Big House burned and they walked off the plantation and out of slavery, the Yay'saws—close cousins to the Gullah—have lived in isolation in the swamplands deep in the South Carolina Lowcountry, practicing the old ways and the old religion their great-grandparents brought with them from Africa across the waters. But now their homes and farms and way of life is threatened by plans to build a dam and flood out their community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Yay'saw say they won't go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes a 15 year old girl have the secret that can save them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sugaree Rising\" is a novel of spirit and shadow and struggle in the tradition of our best African-American writers.","brand":"J. Douglas Allen-Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101384392944,"sku":"2940016451992","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016451992_p0.jpg?v=1763635971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016451992","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}