{"product_id":"payback","title":"Payback","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 1612943039    EAN: 9781612943039\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bywater Books     \u003cbr\u003eUS SRP: $23.95 US  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eCopyright Date: 2024\u003cbr\u003ePub Date: February 18, 2025\u003cbr\u003eMickelbury, Penny (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Penny Mickelbury takes readers on a beautiful and complicated journey through Harlem in 1953. This captivating story is passionate and alive, teeming with the contradictory joy and pain of Black life in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorld War II ended less than 10 years ago, and the Korean War less than one. But no one has recovered from wartime privations, especially the Colored soldiers who fought a ruthless enemy on foreign lands, expecting to return home with all the rights and privileges of American citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut those rights and privileges remain few and far between, and Mickelbury’s cast of characters find themselves reflecting on the Harlem they call home: they are educated and unschooled; wealthy and desperately poor; committed to improving circumstances for Negroes and abjectly hopeless. They create a family of and for themselves—women, men, children, gays, and the proudly self-named. They commit themselves to helping create a world to benefit their people based on hard work, artistic expression, and faith in their community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey have learned to live in the larger world by two guiding principles: Each One Teaches One, and Harm to One is Harm to All—because in this neighborhood, payback will always be swift and painful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdditional Information    \u003cbr\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003cbr\u003e- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian\u003cbr\u003e- Fiction | African American \u0026amp; Black | Historical\u003cbr\u003e- Fiction | Women\u003cbr\u003e- Fiction | Cultural Heritage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bywater Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47716963582189,"sku":"0399177612","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/Payback.jpg?v=1738870395","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/payback","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}