{"product_id":"9781631529641","title":"The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South","description":"In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Outskirts of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family’s experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059944341744,"sku":"9781631529641","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631529641_p0.jpg?v=1769887729","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631529641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}