{"product_id":"a-place-like-mississippi-isbn-9781604699586","title":"A Place Like Mississippi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy: An American Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The South has produced some of America’s most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have created a literary legacy spanning decades and stretching across lines of class, gender, and race. One thing binds together these wide- ranging perspectives—the land itself. In \u003ci\u003eA Place Like Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, W. Ralph Eubanks explores those ties and the ways in which the Magnolia State has fostered such a bounty of expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stories haven’t always been easy to tell; even beautiful landscapes can’t obscure a complicated history. The state’s African American writers have long recounted the fight for equality, forming a lineage of powerful Black voices that continue to speak with urgency in our tumultuous times. Yet underlying those truths is also a deep affection for Mississippi’s places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the love of a native son, Eubanks pays tribute to the inspiration that can come from the lay of the land, proving that a journey through one state’s literary terrain can help us better understand America as a whole\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timber Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895981175013,"sku":"NP9781604699586","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/2a56a28a-f7a6-4503-a78a-afc700060372.jpg?v=1767815814","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-place-like-mississippi-isbn-9781604699586","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}