{"product_id":"a-place-like-mississippi","title":"A Place Like Mississippi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy: An American Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The South has produced some of America’s most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have created a literary legacy spanning decades and stretching across lines of class, gender, and race. One thing binds together these wide- ranging perspectives—the land itself. In \u003ci\u003eA Place Like Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, W. Ralph Eubanks explores those ties and the ways in which the Magnolia State has fostered such a bounty of expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stories haven’t always been easy to tell; even beautiful landscapes can’t obscure a complicated history. The state’s African American writers have long recounted the fight for equality, forming a lineage of powerful Black voices that continue to speak with urgency in our tumultuous times. Yet underlying those truths is also a deep affection for Mississippi’s places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the love of a native son, Eubanks pays tribute to the inspiration that can come from the lay of the land, proving that a journey through one state’s literary terrain can help us better understand America as a whole\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Workman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"9781604699586","offer_id":31812650401872,"sku":"9781604699586","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"9781643260587","offer_id":31889516789840,"sku":"9781643260587","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"9781649040046","offer_id":32982246719568,"sku":"9781649040046","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1210\/1100\/products\/9781643260587-optimized_d6047768-3b9b-47f8-ac9d-8ccff6701210.jpg?v=1697772603","url":"https:\/\/workman-feed-prod.myshopify.com\/products\/a-place-like-mississippi","provider":"zzz_Workman Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}