{"product_id":"9781469177601","title":"Race Music: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta","description":"Into the newly-settled (in 1910) Mississippi Delta country comes Sam Schwartz, a Russian immigrant, one of the many wandering Jewish peddlers who comb the backwoods of the American South, a man fleeing an oppressive country and a painful past.  He experiences an emotional rebirth with Leafy, a black Delta woman. Race Music (the original term for blues recordings) is the story of Sam and Leafy's relationship, of the family they start and of a love betrayed - a betrayal that has consequences that will span fifty years and reach all the way from the Delta to Chicago's South Side.  Delta music - the blues - is always in the background. Celebrated figures like Charlie Patton and Bessie Smith and the fabled Robert Johnson are encountered as they create the Delta's truest history and cultural legacy.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165758177520,"sku":"9781469177601","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469177601_p0.jpg?v=1763699607","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469177601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}