{"product_id":"negroland","title":"Negroland","description":"'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times 'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian  The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation.  Reckoning with the limits and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions.  Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.  'Negroland is a sharp-eyed cultural commentary on an era of America that has often been too simply told' Aminatta Forna, Guardian  'Jefferson writes with piercing clarity of a childhood which was full of love and opportunity at home, but also saturated by contradictions, confusions and a racism which corrodes, like rust, to the heart's core' Observer  'Utterly compelling... a remarkable achievement' Sunday Times","brand":"Granta Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57599986696518,"sku":"9781803510231","price":13.44,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/f677b0ec21f64e66e6b489b489189b458086080cb2116beb378962516d7397aa.jpg?v=1792020880","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/negroland","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}