{"title":"Jacinda Townsend","description":"Jacinda Townsend is the author of Mother Country, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Saint Monkey, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. She teaches at Brown University.","products":[{"product_id":"trigger-warning-paperback","title":"Trigger Warning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMother Country \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe'd gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her father's murder, Ruth pushes her past underground. She changes her name and moves to Kentucky, marries a man named Myron, and together they raise a kid. It's been two decades, and she is, by outside measures, living a good life--but why doesn't it feel good? When her marriage comes to a sudden end, their house burns down in the middle of the night, and she learns that her estranged sister has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Ruth is jolted back into action. She flees again, this time back to her home state of California, with her nonbinary teenager in tow, perhaps ready at last to face her pain and retrieve her former self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSearing, surprisingly witty, and deeply human, \u003ci\u003eTrigger Warning \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about the durational aftermath of anti-Black police violence. Through the perspectives of Ruth and Myron, and those of their friends and their child, Townsend explores divorce and desire, the heartbreaking brevity of parenting, the push and pull of old friendships, and the possibility, after incredible trauma, of reconnecting to what makes us feel alive.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102834430175,"sku":"9781644453544","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1dtgU5tzve9781644453544.webp?v=1781087443"},{"product_id":"saint-monkey-paperback","title":"Saint Monkey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3\/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky--but when her fingers touch the piano keys, the whole church trembles. Her best friend, Caroline, daydreams about Hollywood stardom, but both girls feel destined to languish in a slow-moving stopover town in Montgomery County. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is, until chance intervenes and a booking agent offers Audrey a ticket to join the booming jazz scene in Harlem--an offer she can't resist, not even for Caroline. And in New York City the music never stops. Audrey flirts with love and takes the stage at the Apollo, with its fast-dancing crowds and blinding lights. But fortunes can turn fast in the city--young talent means tough competition, and for Audrey failure is always one step away. Meanwhile, Caroline sinks into the quiet anguish of a Black woman in a backwards country, where her ambitions and desires only slip further out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacinda Townsend's remarkable first novel is a coming-of-age story made at once gripping and poignant by the wild energy of the Jazz Era and the stark realities of segregation. Marrying musical prose with lyric vernacular, \u003cem\u003eSaint Monkey\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a stirring portrait of American storytelling and marks the appearance of an auspicious new voice in literary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104461918431,"sku":"9780393350821","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rMzprGOaaA9780393350821.webp?v=1781108364"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jacinda-townsend.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}