{"product_id":"9781928337140","title":"Sweet Medicine","description":"Sweet Medicine takes place in Harare at the height of Zimbabwe’s economic woes in 2008. Tsitsi, a young woman, raised by her strict, devout Catholic mother, believes that hard work, prayer and an education will ensure a prosperous and happy future. She does well at her mission boarding school, and goes on to obtain a scholarship to attend university, but the change in the economic situation in Zimbabwe destroys the old system where hard work and a degree guaranteed a good life. Out of university, Tsitsi finds herself in a position much lower than she had set her sights on, working as a clerk in the office of the local politician, Zvobgo. With a salary that barely provides her a means to survive, she finds herself increasingly compromising her Christian  values to negotiate ways to get ahead.    Sweet Medicine is a thorough and evocative attempt at grappling with a variety of important issues in the postcolonial context: tradition and modernity; feminism and patriarchy; spiritual and political freedoms and  responsibilities; poverty and desperation; and wealth and abundance.","brand":"Jacana Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141183717616,"sku":"9781928337140","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781928337140_p0.jpg?v=1763637608","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781928337140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}