{"product_id":"corregidora-1","title":"Corregidora","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mainContent___KncIm\"\u003e\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"title-references-tabpanel-1\" aria-labelledby=\"title-references-tab-1\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root css-old1by\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA deluxe hardcover edition of Jones’s American masterpiece, telling the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. (\"You have to read them.\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Gayl Jones’s powerful debut novel, examining womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJones masterfully tells the story of Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer, who, in the wake of a tragic loss, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Brazilian slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped her life and the lives of her family, Ursa Corregidora must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected, edited, and first edited by Toni Morrison, it is “the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women,” (James Baldwin) and “a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and as murky as the Florida swamps.” (Maya Angelou).\u003c\/div\u003e\r\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47710460903578,"sku":"3238","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/3946\/9466\/files\/3238Corregidora.jpg?v=1775579362","url":"https:\/\/uuabookstore.org\/products\/corregidora-1","provider":"inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}