{"product_id":"payback-9781612943039","title":"Payback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\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","brand":"Penny Mickelbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281064407291,"sku":"9781612943039","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e1d931e6-1edc-415f-a23b-f5b4f4fcc8e9.jpg?v=1771294027","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/payback-9781612943039","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}