{"product_id":"9781627794541","title":"Absalom's Daughters: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelf-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for “colored music” and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father’s inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what’s rightly theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the American Deep South of the 1950s, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial strife and violence. Suzanne Feldman's\u003ci\u003e Absalom’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e combines the buddy movie, the coming-of-age tale, and a dash of magical realism to enthrall and move us with an unforgettable, illuminating novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130974552304,"sku":"9781627794541","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627794541_p0.jpg?v=1769905493","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627794541","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}