{"product_id":"magic-city-jewell-parker-rhodes-9780063073227","title":"Magic City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best.\" -- \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a new Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in American history--the 1921 burning of Greenwood, an affluent black section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as the \"Negro Wall Street\"--Jewell Parker Rhodes' powerful and\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e unforgettable novel of racism, vigilantism, and injustice, weaves history, mysticism, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eTulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man flees, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Joe Samuels, a young Black man with dreams of becoming the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Mary Keane, the white, motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagic City\u003c\/em\u003e evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century, Jim Crow America, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jewell Parker Rhodes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063073226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063073227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Jewell Parker Rhodes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055462641919,"sku":"9780063073227","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03e7c3e3-d80d-462a-80ca-6f6e42239ff0.jpg?v=1685035916","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/magic-city-jewell-parker-rhodes-9780063073227","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}