{"product_id":"nowhere-is-a-place-9781617751318","title":"Nowhere Is a Place","description":"\"An engrossing multigenerational saga . . . With her deep engagement in the material and her brisk but lyrical prose, McFadden creates a poignant epic of resiliency, bringing Sherry to a well-earned awareness of her place atop the shoulders of her ancestors, those who survived so that she might one day, too.\" \u003cem\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets; but Sherry is determined to know the full story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn just a few days time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them. What Sherry and Dumpling find on their trip is far more important than scenic sites here and there--it is the assorted pieces of their family's past. Pulled together, they reveal a history of amazing survival and abundant joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernice L. McFadden: Bernice L. McFadden is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels including the classic Sugar, Gathering of Waters, and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a two-time Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, The Warmest December, was praised by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison as \"searing and expertly imagined.\" McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557084238098,"sku":"9781617751318","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9cb9a212-6e42-4194-88cd-cb8d6e4cd318.jpg?v=1731770695","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nowhere-is-a-place-9781617751318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}