{"product_id":"zora-and-me-the-summoner-9781536216677","title":"Zora and Me: The Summoner","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston's family and hometown persuade her to leave childhood behind and find her destiny beyond Eatonville.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville--America's first incorporated Black township--has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora's own father--the showboating preacher John Hurston--decided to run against the town's trusted mayor, but there are other unsettling things afoot, including a heartbreaking family loss, a friend's sudden illness, and the suggestion of voodoo and zombie-ism in the air, which a curious and grieving Zora becomes all too willing to entertain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this fictionalized tale, award-winning author Victoria Bond explores the end of childhood and the bittersweet goodbye to Eatonville by preeminent author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). In so doing, she brings to a satisfying conclusion the story begun in the award-winning \u003ci\u003eZora and Me \u003c\/i\u003eand its sequel, \u003ci\u003e Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, sparking inquisitive readers to explore Hurston's own seminal work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Bond\u003c\/b\u003e is the coauthor, with T. R. Simon, of the John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner \u003ci\u003eZora and Me.\u003c\/i\u003e She holds an MFA in creative writing and is a lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Victoria Bond lives in New Jersey with her family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437515641106,"sku":"9781536216677","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_faa2fd49-6f88-488f-a6d7-064d79879a63.jpg?v=1729644599","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zora-and-me-the-summoner-9781536216677","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}