{"product_id":"9781936071432","title":"Madewell Brown","description":"As recorded in Rick Collignon’s second novel,\u003cbr\u003ePerdido, a tall black man with one arm longer than\u003cbr\u003ethe other walked into Guadalupe, New Mexico one\u003cbr\u003emorning about 50 years ago, stayed pretty much\u003cbr\u003eto himself for seven years, and then walked back\u003cbr\u003eout of town. No one knew who he was or what\u003cbr\u003ebecame of him.\u003cbr\u003eNow, as his last act, an old man named Ruffino\u003cbr\u003eTrujillo tells his grown son Cipriano a story about\u003cbr\u003ewhat became of the black man. After Ruffino’s\u003cbr\u003edeath, Cipriano discovers an old canvas bag\u003cbr\u003ebearing the name of Madewell Brown. Inside are\u003cbr\u003ea hand-carved doll, an old blanket, an unlabeled\u003cbr\u003ephoto of a Negro League baseball team, and a\u003cbr\u003esmall, yellowing envelope that was never posted.\u003cbr\u003eThinking it the least he can do, Cipriano mails the\u003cbr\u003eletter. When it arrives in Cairo, Illinois, it comes\u003cbr\u003einto the hands of a young woman named Rachael,\u003cbr\u003ewho believes it is from her lost grandfather. She\u003cbr\u003ebelieves this because of all that she’s been told by\u003cbr\u003ethe raggedy old man who taught her everything:\u003cbr\u003eObie Poole, who was Madewell’s friend and the\u003cbr\u003eorphaned Rachael’s anchor, the man who gives this\u003cbr\u003eeloquent novel its authentic sense of history lived.\u003cbr\u003eDrawn magically forward on Rick Collignon’s\u003cbr\u003edirect and haunting prose, we follow Rachael to\u003cbr\u003eGuadalupe in search of her own identity and we\u003cbr\u003ewatch as Cipriano tries to make sense of the story\u003cbr\u003ehis father told him about a dead man who didn’t\u003cbr\u003ebelong there.\u003cbr\u003eThis fourth installment in Collignon’s beloved\u003cbr\u003eGuadalupe series is as magical as its predecessors,\u003cbr\u003eas emotionally honest, as surprising — and it firmly\u003cbr\u003eestablishes Rick Collignon as a master American\u003cbr\u003estoryteller.","brand":"Unbridled Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178443686128,"sku":"9781936071432","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936071432_p0.jpg?v=1763658041","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936071432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}