{"product_id":"a-place-like-mississippi-w-ralph-eubanks-9781604699586","title":"A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.\" --Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy: An American Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The South has produced some of America's most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have created a literary legacy spanning decades and stretching across lines of class, gender, and race. One thing binds together these wide- ranging perspectives--the land itself. In \u003ci\u003eA Place Like Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, W. Ralph Eubanks explores those ties and the ways in which the Magnolia State has fostered such a bounty of expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The stories haven't always been easy to tell; even beautiful landscapes can't obscure a complicated history. The state's African American writers have long recounted the fight for equality, forming a lineage of powerful Black voices that continue to speak with urgency in our tumultuous times. Yet underlying those truths is also a deep affection for Mississippi's places. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the love of a native son, Eubanks pays tribute to the inspiration that can come from the lay of the land, proving that a journey through one state's literary terrain can help us better understand America as a whole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. Ralph Eubanks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1604699582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604699586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Timber Press (OR)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d","brand":"W. Ralph Eubanks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44052290797823,"sku":"9781604699586","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de0d324e-b650-4b37-bffb-cd77c8cb37e6.jpg?v=1685017987","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-place-like-mississippi-w-ralph-eubanks-9781604699586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}