{"product_id":"hark-john-r-gordon-9781916356115","title":"Hark","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn R Gordon is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Ferro-Grumley Award for best LGBTQ fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHark\u003c\/em\u003e mixes several genres with grace, aplomb and undeniable queerness. It's audaciously provocative, sexy and spooky all at once. And very much of the zeitgeist \" -- Craig Laurance Gidney (\u003cem\u003eA Spectral Hue\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe night the statue of a Confederate colonel is torn down in the center of a dying, opioid-scarred and racially divided Southern town is the night two wild teenagers meet and start to fall in love. White working class Cleve is broke and drifting into criminality; black, bourgeois Roe is alienated and rebellious. They say opposites attract, and who could be more opposite than Cleve and Roe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Cleve finds himself, at age 17, home alone for the first time in his life, he summons the courage to invite Roe to stay over. The young men's relationship looks set to move to another level when they are interrupted by Hark, a mysterious black vagrant who seems to possess supernatural powers, and takes them on a strange and troubling journey into the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHark\u003c\/em\u003e is a touching, vividly contemporary coming of age story; a compelling, fast-paced and ultimately hopeful tale of gay interracial love; and shows us how necessary it is to confront the evils of our shared history, however painful it may be to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn R Gordon is the author of the black gay antebellum epic \u003cem\u003eDrapetomania\u003c\/em\u003e. Hailed as \"an all-out masterpiece\" by Patrik-Ian Polk (\u003cem\u003eNoah's Arc\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Skinny\u003c\/em\u003e) and \"a dazzling work of imagination\" by Michael Eric Dyson (\u003cem\u003eTears We Cannot Stop: Sermon to White America\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John R. Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916356117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916356115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Team Angelica Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d","brand":"John R. Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943127089407,"sku":"9781916356115","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0c329aeb-e0f8-4fef-8747-96ea5f24e2a1.jpg?v=1681496360","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hark-john-r-gordon-9781916356115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}