{"product_id":"cahokia-jazz-9781668025451","title":"Cahokia Jazz","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFresh Air (top 10 pick), \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e NPR, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e(top 15 pick), \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and more!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGolden Hill \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a \"dazzling\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \"smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s\" (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e) that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike his earlier novel \u003ci\u003eGolden Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, Francis Spufford's \u003ci\u003eCahokia Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920s--a fully imagined world filled with fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. In the main character of hard-boiled detective Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing people of every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. Yet that corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Atmospheric...many of us will recognize our own held-breath bafflement, caught, as we are, on the darkling plain of our own barely believable times\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Spufford began as the author of four highly praised books of nonfiction. His first book, \u003ci\u003eI May Be Some Time\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Child That Books Built\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBackroom Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eUnapologetic\u003c\/i\u003e. But with \u003ci\u003eRed Plenty \u003c\/i\u003ein 2012 he switched to the novel. \u003ci\u003eGolden Hill \u003c\/i\u003ewon multiple literary prizes on both sides of the Atlantic; \u003ci\u003eLight Perpetual \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the Booker Prize. In England he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573111329042,"sku":"9781668025451","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bcd238ca-0d01-4866-ad2f-2d0cddf36a06.jpg?v=1744273441","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cahokia-jazz-9781668025451","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}