{"product_id":"black-folk-could-fly","title":"Black Folk Could Fly","description":"\"Rich in identity,\" as he described himself, Randall Kenan wrote widely and profoundly about what it meant to be Black, gay, and Southern. He confessed himself \"elusive\"--yet revealed himself in astonishing prose--memories of his three mothers (especially Mama, his great-aunt); recollections of his boyhood fear of snakes and his rapture in books; his sensual evocations of tobacco picking and hogkilling, butterbeans and scuppernongs, of the eastern North Carolina lowlands where he grew up. Here too is his intellectual coming-of-age: his passion for science fiction; his informed and ecstatic appreciations of James Baldwin, Ingmar Bergman, Gordon Parks, and Eartha Kitt; his grappling with the politics and meaning of race (a fiction) and home (an inescapable, visceral reality). This powerful collection is a testament to a polymathic mind, a wise soul, and a sublimely gifted writer from whom readers will always wish to have more to read.","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43278986772720,"sku":"9780393882162","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/products\/content_56ec7405-6ef9-4110-a0cf-320ac00f9a7e.jpg?v=1659631496","url":"https:\/\/landmark-booksellers.myshopify.com\/products\/black-folk-could-fly","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}