{"product_id":"the-rib-king-a-novel-isbn-9780062979063","title":"The Rib King: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThrillist - 30 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Riot – Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReal Simple – The Best New Books to Read in 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChicago Review of Books – 12 Must-Read Books of January \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Riot – January 2021 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlamour--7 of the Best New Books in January\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVulture – 46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLit Hub – Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGMA.com – 16 January reads for the new year \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarper’s Bazaar – 24 Books You Need to Read in 2021 -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Millions – Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePopsugar – From Bravery to Outlawed – These Are the Best Books of January 2021 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMs. Magazine – January 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBustle – The Best New Books, Week of January 18\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVulture – 27 Notable New Releases Over the Next Two Weeks \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLit Hub – 14 new books to fuel your reading resolutions \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Ultimately the\u003cbr\u003ereason to read \u003cem\u003eThe Rib King\u003c\/em\u003e is not its timeliness or its insight into politics\u003cbr\u003eor Black culture, but because it accomplishes what the best fiction sets out to\u003cbr\u003edo: It drops you into a world you could not otherwise visit and makes you care\u003cbr\u003edeeply about what happens there.”--\u003cem\u003eBookPage\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed author\u003cbr\u003eof \u003cem\u003eThe Talented Ribkins\u003c\/em\u003e deconstructs painful African American stereotypes and\u003cbr\u003eoffers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition,\u003cbr\u003eexploitation, and the seeds of rage in America in this intricately woven and\u003cbr\u003emasterfully executed historical novel, set in early the twentieth century that\u003cbr\u003ecenters around the black servants of a down-on-its heels upper-class white\u003cbr\u003efamily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fifteen years\u003cbr\u003eAugust Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who\u003cbr\u003eplucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part\u003cbr\u003eof the household’s all-black staff, along with “Miss Mamie,” the talented cook,\u003cbr\u003epretty new maid Jennie Williams, and three young kitchen apprentices—the latest\u003cbr\u003eorphan boys Mr. Barclay has taken in to \"civilize\" boys like August.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the Barclays\u003cbr\u003efortunes have fallen, and their money is almost gone. When a prospective\u003cbr\u003ebusiness associate proposes selling Miss Mamie’s delicious rib sauce to local\u003cbr\u003emarkets under the brand name “The Rib King”—using a caricature of a wildly\u003cbr\u003egrinning August on the label—Mr. Barclay, desperate for cash, agrees. Yet\u003cbr\u003eneither Miss Mamie nor August will see a dime. Humiliated, August grows\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly distraught, his anger building to a rage that explodes in shocking\u003cbr\u003etragedy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegantly written and\u003cbr\u003eexhaustively researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Rib King \u003c\/em\u003eis an unsparing examination of America’s\u003cbr\u003efascination with black iconography and exploitation that redefines African\u003cbr\u003eAmerican stereotypes in literature. In this powerful, disturbing, and timely\u003cbr\u003enovel, Ladee Hubbard reveals who people actually are, and most importantly, who\u003cbr\u003eand what they are not.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003csub\u003e\"Finely written and worth a second read, this novel would be a fantastic choice for book discussion groups. With complete faithfulness to the text, it could also make an excellent movie.\"\u003c\/sub\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hubbard’s latest cements her status as an American original.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The novel goes far beyond a story of revenge. It is an engrossing account of Black genius and entrepreneurship in the early 20th century.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of 2021's Best Fiction - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hubbard delivers a dazzling tour-de-force in this richly painted, perfectly timed meditation on privilege and fury.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One will be impressed at all times with Hubbard’s control over her historical milieu as well as her complicated, intriguing characterizations. . . . An imaginative work craftily depicting the failure of imagination that is American racism.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ladee Hubbard’s sophomore novel, The Rib King, is a fascinating story about the intersection of ambition, race and revenge. . . 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