{"product_id":"9780802138316","title":"1959","description":"\u003cp\u003eThulani Davis's 1959 is a powerful, poignant coming-of-age novel that captures a dramatic moment in American history as clearly as a photograph. It's the summer of 1959 and Willie Tarrant of Turner, Virginia, is twelve. Her father and other adults in the town are worried about integration — how it will affect their children's safety and the quality of their education — but for Willie it's just another problem she's going to have to deal with, like her chores and beginning to go out with boys. Willie and her friends — kids from good families with good grades — are being groomed to be sent in the first wave. Before this can happen, though, eight black college students, wearing suits and fresh haircuts, go into the Woolworth's lunch counter — changing everything. In 1959 one of the most talented writers of her generation has written a book that will become a classic of civil rights literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026315559152,"sku":"9780802138316","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802138316_p0.jpg?v=1763726184","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802138316","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}