{"product_id":"the-celestial-jukebox-cynthia-shearer-9780820328386","title":"The Celestial Jukebox","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, Cynthia Shearer's \u003ci\u003eThe Celestial Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism--gambling and other vices. Into this world comes Boubacar, a fifteen-year-old African boy joining friends from Mauritania already living in the area. They are new African blacks not especially noteworthy in a town filled with Chinese emigrants, African Americans within memory of slavery, and straggling members of the original white families of the area. Presiding over Madagascar is Angus, the second-generation Delta Chinese proprietor of the Celestial Grocery, and his vintage jukebox with its treasure of Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, and Wanda Jackson songs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ties that bind the lives in this community together are American roots music and the desire to make a home in the rural South. The purity and beauty of Cynthia Shearer's writing--like the purity of music that exists within this story, an imagined soundtrack of more than thirty songs--marks \u003ci\u003eThe Celestial Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e as that most rare book, a novel as historically expansive as it is intimate, filled with music, wisdom, and spontaneous joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Shearer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820328383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820328386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.97d","brand":"Cynthia Shearer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980617646335,"sku":"9780820328386","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9276cd61-d9cc-46c3-a7f3-d336232c8b18.jpg?v=1683250935","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-celestial-jukebox-cynthia-shearer-9780820328386","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}