{"product_id":"9781416579809","title":"Moon: A Novel","description":"A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood. What connects them? Why are they rising as ghosts? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, knows better than anyone New Orleans's brutal past -- the legacy of slavery, poverty, racism, and sexism -- and as a doctor at Charity Hospital's ER, she treats its current victims. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhen she sleeps, she dreams of blood. Rain, never ending. The river is rising and the yellow moon warns of an ancient evil -- an African vampire -- \u003ci\u003ewazimamoto\u003c\/i\u003e -- a spirit created by colonial oppression.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The struggle becomes personal, as the \u003ci\u003ewazimamoto\u003c\/i\u003e is intent on destroying her and all the Laveau descendants. Marie fights to protect her daughter, lover, and herself from the \u003ci\u003ewazimamoto's\u003c\/i\u003e seductive assault on both body and spirit. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Echoing with the heartache and triumph of the African-American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of racial oppression, \u003ci\u003eYellow Moon\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an unforgettable heroine -- sexy, vulnerable, and mysterious -- in Marie Levant, while it powerfully evokes a city on the brink of catastrophe. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYellow Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Season\u003c\/i\u003e -- magical realist fiction that takes the legend of the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, as imagined by Jewell Parker Rhodes in the bestselling \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Dreams,\u003c\/i\u003e into the present day.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153678287088,"sku":"9781416579809","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416579809_p0.jpg?v=1763775924","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416579809","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}