{"product_id":"9781617752308","title":"The Girl with the Golden Shoes: A Novella","description":"Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who’s forced to fend for herself when she’s banished from the isolated fishing village where she’s lived all her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Channer\u003c\/b\u003e’s major works of fiction include the novel \u003ci\u003eWaiting in Vain\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003ePassing Through,\u003c\/i\u003e which Junot Díaz described as “a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora’s finest writers.” He also edited \u003ci\u003eIron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113625731312,"sku":"9781617752308","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617752308_p0.jpg?v=1763854063","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617752308","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}