{"id":23515,"date":"2012-05-29T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23515"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:03:16","slug":"glow-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23515","title":{"rendered":"Glow, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780670023318,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Glow, A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Viking (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Press<\/a>)<br \/>\n2012-03-15<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780670023318<br \/>\nePub eBook ISBN: 9781101560976<br \/>\neBook Adobe Reader ISBN: 9781101557563<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicamariatuccelli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Maria Tuccelli<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780670023318,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/covers\/all\/8\/1\/9780670023318H.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night\u2014a desperate measure that proves calamitous when the child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Ella awakens in the homestead of Willie Mae Cotton, a wise root doctor and former slave, and her partner, Mary-Mary Freeborn, tucked deep in the Takatoka Forest. As Ella heals, the secrets of her lineage are revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Shot through with Cherokee lore and hoodoo conjuring, <em>Glow<\/em> transports us from Washington, D.C., on the brink of World War II to the Blue Ridge frontier of 1836, from the parlors of antebellum manses to the plantation kitchens where girls are raised by women who stand in as mothers. As the land with all its promise and turmoil passes from one generation to the next, Ella&#8217;s ancestral home turns from safe haven to mayhem and back again.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Maria Tuccelli reveals deep insight into individual acts that can transform a community, and the ties that bind people together across immeasurable hardships and distances. Illuminating the tragedy of human frailty, the vitality of friendship and hope, and the fiercest of all bonds\u2014mother love\u2014the voices of <em>Glow<\/em> transcend their history with grace and splendor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glow, A Novel Viking (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2012-03-15 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780670023318 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781101560976 eBook Adobe Reader ISBN: 9781101557563 Jessica Maria Tuccelli In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[10963,6202],"class_list":["post-23515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-jessica-maria-tuccelli","tag-penguin-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}