{"product_id":"the-queen-of-palmyra-9780061840326","title":"The Queen of Palmyra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- Lee Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eOn Agate Hill\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisitely beautiful... The novel grips the reader from its first page and relentlessly drives us to its conclusion.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- William Ferris, author of \u003cem\u003eGive My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn atmospheric debut novel about growing up in the changing South in 1960s Mississippi in the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd's \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Life of Bees\u003c\/em\u003e and Kathryn Stockett's \u003cem\u003eThe Help\u003c\/em\u003e. In the words of Jill McCorkle (\u003cem\u003eGoing Away Shoes\u003c\/em\u003e), \"Minrose Gwin is an extremely gifted writer and \u003cem\u003eThe Queen of Palmyra\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant and compelling novel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwin, Minrose:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMinrose Gwin is the author of three novels: \u003cem\u003eThe Queen of Palmyra, \u003c\/em\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; \u003cem\u003ePromise, \u003c\/em\u003efinalist for the Willie Morris Award in Southern Literature; and \u003cem\u003eThe Accidentals\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eIn her memoir, \u003cem\u003eWishing for Snow\u003c\/em\u003e, she writes about the convergence of poetry and psychosis in her mother's life. Wearing another hat, she has written four books of literary and cultural criticism and history, most recently \u003cem\u003eRemembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement, \u003c\/em\u003e and coedited \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the American South, \u003c\/em\u003e a Norton anthology. Minrose began her career as a newspaper reporter. Since then, she has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Like the characters in \u003cem\u003ePromise\u003c\/em\u003e, she grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917426397458,"sku":"9780061840326","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2843c25f-8b5a-4b30-be2d-fc1706a136ac.jpg?v=1738866938","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-queen-of-palmyra-9780061840326","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}