{"product_id":"four-spirits-9780060936693","title":"Four Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003eWeaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sena Jeter Naslund creates a tapestry of American social transformation at once intimate and epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Birmingham, Alabama, twenty-year-old Stella Silver, an idealistic white college student, is sent reeling off her measured path by events of 1963. Combining political activism with single parenting and night-school teaching, African American Christine Taylor discovers she must heal her own bruised heart to actualize meaningful social change. Inspired by the courage and commitment of the civil rights movement, the child Edmund Powers embodies hope for future change. In this novel of maturation and growth, Naslund makes vital the intersection of spiritual, political, and moral forces that have redefined America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNaslund, Sena Jeter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSena Jeter Naslund is a cofounder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits \u003cem\u003eThe Louisville Review\u003c\/em\u003e and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including \u003cem\u003eAhab's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e, a finalist for the Orange Prize. She recently retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459893235986,"sku":"9780060936693","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d2d72c2-9816-466a-bceb-842e7ce3be13.jpg?v=1730012280","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/four-spirits-9780060936693","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}