{"product_id":"how-far-to-the-promised-land-one-black-familys-story-of-hope-and-survival-in-the-american-south-paperback","title":"How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEsau McCaulley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003econtributing opinion writer and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eReading While Black, \u003c\/i\u003ea riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Powerful . . . McCaulley uses examples of his own family's stories of survival over time to remind readers that some paths to the promised land have detours along the way.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut that narrative was called into question one night, when McCaulley answered the phone and learned that his father--whose absence defined his upbringing--died in a car crash. McCaulley was being asked to deliver his father's eulogy, to make sense of his complicated legacy in a country that only accepts Black men on the condition that they are exceptional, hardworking, perfect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe resulting effort sent McCaulley back through his family history, seeking to understand the community that shaped him. In these pages, we meet his great-grandmother Sophia, a tenant farmer born with the gift of prophecy who scraped together a life in Jim Crow Alabama; his mother, Laurie, who raised four kids alone in an era when single Black mothers were demonized as \"welfare queens\"; and a cast of family, friends, and neighbors who won small victories in a world built to swallow Black lives. With profound honesty and compassion, he raises questions that implicate us all: What does each person's struggle to build a life teach us about what we owe each other? About what it means to be human? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Far to the Promised Land \u003c\/i\u003eis a thrilling and tender epic about being Black in America. It's a book that questions our too-simple narratives about poverty and upward mobility; a book in which the people normally written out of the American Dream are given voice.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754976805152,"sku":"9780593241103","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/269214dd3d9abad2f94ff1f17758452d.webp?v=1780047438","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-far-to-the-promised-land-one-black-familys-story-of-hope-and-survival-in-the-american-south-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}