{"product_id":"maud-martha","title":"Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBernardine Evaristo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational writers.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eClaudia Rankine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power and splendor of an ordinary life.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTayari Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewhat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e, am I to do with all of this life?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in 1953 but never published in Britain,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMaud Martha\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gwendolyn Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45081569722545,"sku":"9780571373253","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1833\/4129\/files\/Untitleddesign-2025-01-15T130325.149.png?v=1737272059","url":"https:\/\/cd15fe-a1.myshopify.com\/ar\/products\/maud-martha","provider":"Aafaq Bookstore UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}