{"product_id":"9780802191571","title":"Jam on the Vine: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the compelling story of one woman’s struggle for equality that belongs alongside \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e by Toni Morrison and \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e by Alice Walker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother’s white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson College in Austin, only to return over-qualified to the menial labor offered by her hometown’s racially-biased employers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in Kansas City, where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the first female-run African American newspaper, \u003ci\u003eJam! On the Vine\u003c\/i\u003e. In the throes of the Red Summer—the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the Midwest—Ivoe risks her freedom, and her life, to call attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American prison system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkillfully interweaving Ivoe’s story with those of her family members, LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s \u003ci\u003eJam! On the Vine\u003c\/i\u003e is both an epic vision of the hardships and injustices that defined an era and a moving and compelling story of a complicated history we only thought we knew. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128105746672,"sku":"9780802191571","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802191571_p0.jpg?v=1763666042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802191571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}