{"id":57106,"date":"2018-12-03T01:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57106"},"modified":"2018-12-03T01:20:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:20:57","slug":"mostly-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57106","title":{"rendered":"Mostly White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torreyhouse.org\/mostly-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mostly White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torreyhouse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torrey House Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2018<br \/>\n200 pages<br \/>\nTrade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-937226-95-4<br \/>\nElectronic ISBN: 978-1-937226-99-2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlywhitenovel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alison Hart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torreyhouse.org\/mostly-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imageZoomCompdataItem-jeykh3ysimageimage\" style=\"object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ecc6a6_454816d77e9a47f0b66832455126c817~mv2_d_1575_2400_s_2.jpg\/v1\/crop\/x_25,y_0,w_1525,h_2400\/fill\/w_519,h_816,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01\/MOSTLY%20front%20cover%208_26.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spanning four generations of a mixed-race family, <em>Mostly White<\/em> is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women. The novel begins with Emma, who survives the abuse of an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Indian_boarding_schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian residential school<\/a> in 1890s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine<\/a>. Beaten and locked in a closet for days, Emma flees to the woods, where she meets Bird Man, an Irish bootlegger. Three generations later, aspiring actor Ella contends with her mixed-race heritage as she navigates color lines in 1980s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this sweeping and compassionate novel, Alison Hart\u2019s unforgettable characters struggle with racism, poverty, and how to honor the call of their ancestors while forming their own identities. <em>Mostly White<\/em> unflinchingly examines facets of America\u2019s difficult past\u2014and the many ways this past pervades our present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,3015,15,20],"tags":[29133,2711,596,29132],"class_list":["post-57106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-novels","category-usa","tag-alison-hart","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-torrey-house-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57106","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=57106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57107,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57106\/revisions\/57107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}