{"product_id":"lyrics-of-a-blackbird-persia-walker-9780979253867","title":"Lyrics of a Blackbird: A Jazz Age Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does it cost to survive inside a system designed to break you?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOld loves, festering hatreds, and buried family secrets collide in this unsparing tale of Jazz Age New York-when a man returns from the dead, summoned home by a guilt he can't ignore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1926, the heart of the Roaring Twenties, and Harlem is the place to be. Years after disappearing Down South to investigate a lynching, David McKay, a civil rights attorney from a prominent Strivers' Row family, resurfaces in New York. His sister is dead-a brutal suicide, they say. But he's got another shock coming: she married a man she barely knew, an ambitious attorney. The man's settled into the McKay family townhouse-and he's not about to give it up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid doesn't believe his sister killed herself-doesn't want to. But the alternative? That's even uglier. Murder. The truth is out there, and he means to find it. But he's got a problem-a secret that could bury him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe reenters the world of the Harlem Renaissance-a society governed by suffocating rules; seductive, predatory patrons; and imperious civil rights leaders. His search carries him from the wealthy salons of Harlem's elite to the crowded tenements of its embattled poor-and a heart-wrenching reunion with the woman he had to leave behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach day he stays in town, each question he asks, brings him closer to ruin. People thought he was dead-murdered. Now those same people-people who matter-want to know where he was, what he's been up to. How long before they find out? Before they unearth his bitter secret-the sin that shames him, the lie that could destroy him? When another body turns up, the questions stop. David's the answer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gripping historical murder mystery, \u003ci\u003eLyrics of a Blackbird\u003c\/i\u003e confronts colorism, classism, and the corrosive cost of survival in 1920s New York, inside a system that pits a community against itself, that rewards pretense and fears truth. Perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Chester Himes-with the psychological precision of Nella Larsen and the moral reckoning of Raymond Chandler. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e(Originally titled \u003ci\u003eHarlem Redux)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Persia Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0979253861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780979253867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blood Vintage Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.04d","brand":"Persia Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441434734847,"sku":"9780979253867","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ac12b29-9f78-418b-ab0f-2699d8677eb3.jpg?v=1777190863","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lyrics-of-a-blackbird-persia-walker-9780979253867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}