{"product_id":"the-blue-is-where-god-lives-9781419767104","title":"The Blue Is Where God Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eSharon Sochil Washington's \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Is Where God Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magic realism that reclaims the promise of a family's destiny through the bending of time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Blue's daughter, Tsitra, is dying a violent and horrific death while, thousands of miles away, Blue feels time slowing and hears voices, followed by a stillness that befalls her for 18 months. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More than a century before, Blue's grandparents Amanda and Palmer attend a salon party in New Orleans. It's a veritable who's who within pre-Civil War social circles. Conversations get heated quickly as Ismay, the hostess who hails from French royalty--and who is the daughter of one of the most ruthless and wealthy slaveholders--antagonizes Palmer, a landowner and slaveholder himself whose parents had been sold into American slavery and who's there to seek revenge, and Amanda, a shape-shifter and puzzle maker who had been enslaved until this very gathering. At this party, Amanda learns of a cosmic plot that will doom a line of her and Palmer's family to poverty, so she devises her own counterplot to undo the damage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Back in the present, Blue comes out of her stillness, broke and devoid of inspiration. In profound grief and consumed by guilt, Blue travels to The Ranch where the voices grow louder and she has visions of two women from the distant past. There, Blue feels the spark of a power and creative energy she has only glimpsed . . . but can it change her future? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A time-bending novel of invention grounded in the real, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Is Where God Lives\u003c\/i\u003e obliterates the space between past and present and asks whether belief, magic, and intention can forge new realities. With lush, captivating prose, intricate plotting, and unforgettable characters, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Is Where God Lives \u003c\/i\u003eis a transcendent, electrifying debut of undeniable beauty and possibility that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Sochil Washington\u003c\/b\u003e is a cultural anthropologist who has written for \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDallas Times Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003e(New York), and the \u003ci\u003eAkron Beacon Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She received degrees from Columbia University and The New School in New York City and speaks regularly at universities and conferences on issues of social justice, race, economic insecurity, education, and media influences. \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Is Where God Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390051717394,"sku":"9781419767104","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b8202ae-5d36-482e-b7f5-b571f3ca2948.jpg?v=1728937470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-blue-is-where-god-lives-9781419767104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}