{"product_id":"9781936442102","title":"Jazz Baby","description":"While all Mississippi bakes in the scorching summer of 1925, a sudden orphanhood casts its icy shadow across Emily Ann Teegarten, a pretty young teen.\u003cp\u003eTaken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, \"Baby\" Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that makes church ladies cry and angels take notice. \"I'm gonna sing jazz up to New York City,\" she brags to anybody who'll listen. 'Cept that Big Apple-well, it's an awful long way from that dry patch of earth she used to call home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when the smoky stages of New Orleans speakeasies give a whistle, offering all kinda shortcuts, Emily soon learns it's the whorehouses and drug joints promising to tickle more than just a young girl's fancy that can dim a spotlight . . . and knowing the wrong people can snuff it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJazz Baby just wants to sing-not fight to stay alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Fresh Ink Group, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064858460400,"sku":"9781936442102","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936442102_p0.jpg?v=1763658906","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936442102","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}