{"product_id":"the-last-hotel-for-women-vicki-covington-9780817310035","title":"The Last Hotel for Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her fourth novel Covington threads the turbulent racial unrest\u003cbr\u003eof Civil Rights-era Birmingham into the already complicated fabric of one\u003cbr\u003ewhite family's life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Mother's Day, 1961, a busload of freedom riders arrived\u003cbr\u003ein Birmingham, Alabama, from \"up North.\" A group of angry white men, including\u003cbr\u003emembers of the Ku Klux Klan, armed with pipes and clubs, greeted them.\u003cbr\u003eLife in this most segregated of southern cities would never be the same.\u003cbr\u003eIt is to this pivotal moment that novelist Vicki Covington returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBirmingham crackles with tension--at the foundry where\u003cbr\u003ePete, Dinah Fraley's husband, works; on the baseball field where white\u003cbr\u003eand black company teams uneasily take turns; and most of all in Dinah's\u003cbr\u003ehotel, where Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor holds court just\u003cbr\u003eas he did when Dinah's mother ran the place as a bordello. When Dinah takes\u003cbr\u003ein a freedom rider injured in the Mother's Day melee, the conflicts within\u003cbr\u003eand beyond her well-ordered world reach a crisis point.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirmly grounded in Alabama's physical, social, and cultural landscape, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Hotel\u003cbr\u003efor Women \u003c\/i\u003erevisits a painful moment in the South's past and allows\u003cbr\u003eCovington to redeem its collective history with a story of grace and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vicki Covington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817310037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817310035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.87d","brand":"Vicki Covington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079774105855,"sku":"9780817310035","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7322769-bc8a-4eaf-8d36-d2f035b5cdd4.jpg?v=1685483062","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-hotel-for-women-vicki-covington-9780817310035","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}