{"product_id":"glorious-9781936070114","title":"Glorious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era. Blending fact and fiction, \u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and ultimately revival offers a candid and true portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a novel informed by the question that is the title of Langston Hughes's famous poem: What happens to a dream deferred? Based on years of research, this heart-wrenching fictional account is given added resonance by factual events coupled with real and imagined larger-than-life characters. \u003cem\u003eGlorious\u003c\/em\u003e is an audacious exploration into the nature of self-hatred, love, possession, ego, betrayal, and, finally, redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place, which was a Washington Post Best Fiction title for 2006. She is a two time Hurston\/Wright award fiction finalist as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476260360466,"sku":"9781936070114","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b42720c3-1a53-4b55-b576-ae0b38efc74d.jpg?v=1730247028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glorious-9781936070114","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}