{"product_id":"moon-and-the-mars-hardcover","title":"Moon and the Mars - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKia Corthron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young, biracial girl--the highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Corthron, a true heir to James Baldwin, presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism.\" --Naomi Wallace, MacArthur \"Genius\" Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea Spare \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMoon and the Mars\u003c\/i\u003e, set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandmothers. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work, hardship, and camaraderie. Meanwhile, white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting--painfully, transformationally--as the nation divides and marches to war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs with her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle Cross the Magnet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e, which was praised by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Angela Y. Davis, among many others, Corthron's use of dialogue brings her characters to life in a way that only an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter can do. As Theo grows and attends school, her language and grammar change, as does her own vocabulary when she's with her Black or Irish families. It's an extraordinary feat and a revelation for the reader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMoon and the Mars\u003c\/i\u003e, [Corthron's] latest masterpiece, is an absorbing story of family and community, of Africans and Irish, of settler and native, of slavery and abolition, of a city and a nation wracked by Civil War and racist violence, of love won and lost.\" --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKIA CORTHRON's debut fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle Cross the Magnet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e, was the winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice. She was the 2017 Bread Loaf Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel. She is also a nationally and internationally produced playwright. For her body of work for the stage, she has garnered the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the Horton Foote Prize, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Flora Roberts Award, and others. She was born and raised in Cumberland, Maryland, and lives in Harlem, New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 8.9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765604122912,"sku":"9781644211038","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c722e43cf1c518c7fb0fa5cbeca17993.webp?v=1780274646","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/moon-and-the-mars-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}