{"product_id":"magic-city","title":"Magic City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A compelling\u003cbr\u003epage-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will\u003cbr\u003esomehow, magically, turn out for the best.\" -- \u003cem\u003eAtlanta\u003cbr\u003eJournal-Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a new Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in American history--the 1921 burning of Greenwood, an affluent black section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as the \"Negro Wall Street\"--Jewell Parker Rhodes' powerful and\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e unforgettable novel of racism, vigilantism, and injustice, weaves history, mysticism, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eTulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man flees, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Joe Samuels, a young Black man with dreams of becoming the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Mary Keane, the white, motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagic City\u003c\/em\u003e evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century, Jim Crow America, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943401095399,"sku":"9780063073227","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_b2f65712-7380-429b-a4f7-eecd01e3659f.jpg?v=1775321536","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/magic-city","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}