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A new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the compelling story of one womans struggle for equality that belongs alongside Jazz by Toni Morrison and The Color Purple by Alice WalkerIvoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from centraleast Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mothers white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson College in Austin, only to return overqualified to the menial labor offered by her hometowns raciallybiased employers.Ivoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in Kansas City, where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the first femalerun African American newspaper, Jam! On the Vine. In the throes of the Red Summerthe 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the MidwestIvoe risks her freedom, and her life, to call attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American prison system.Skillfully interweaving Ivoes story with those of her family members, LaShonda Katrice Barnetts Jam! On the Vine is both an epic vision of the hardships and injustices that defined an era and a moving and compelling story of a complicated history we only thought we knew.
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