{"product_id":"magic-city-9780063073227","title":"Magic City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best.\" -- \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Journal-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.\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhodes, Jewell Parker:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Jewell Parker Rhodes\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of six adult novels: \u003cem\u003eVoodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHurricane\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the memoir \u003cem\u003ePorch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness, \u003c\/em\u003e and two writing guides, \u003cem\u003eFree Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction.\u003c\/em\u003e Jewell is also the author of seven books for youth including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestsellers \u003cem\u003eGhost Boys \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBlack Brother, Black Brother. \u003c\/em\u003eShe has won the American Book Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, and the Jane Addams Peace Association Book Award. Jewell is the Founding Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and Narrative Studies Professor and Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair at Arizona State University. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Carnegie-Mellon University. She lives in Seattle, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510887387410,"sku":"9780063073227","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91e35b2e-5848-4823-9c60-ea9f70139a79.jpg?v=1730938091","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/magic-city-9780063073227","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}