{"product_id":"season-paperback","title":"Season - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJewell Parker Rhodes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSeason \u003c\/i\u003e(formerly titled \u003ci\u003eVoodoo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeason\u003c\/i\u003e), Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits the sensual, magical landscape of her highly acclaimed debut novel, \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarie Levant, raised in the North by foster parents, begins her medical residency in New Orlean's Charity Hospital. Plagued by deja vu and haunted by increasingly violent dreams, Marie tries to make a life in a city that seems both foreign and familiar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout warning her world falls apart, for it is voodoo season: the season of heat, humidity, the West Nile virus, of unexplained deaths of young adults all with a mysterious symbol marked in red clay on their foreheads. It is the season of babies cut from their dead mother's wombs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the season when the Guede, the death gods, haunt Levant--whispering tales, sending memories and dreams of Marie Laveau, a nineteenth century \u003ci\u003evoodooienne\u003c\/i\u003e, who walked on water and blended African \u003ci\u003eloas \u003c\/i\u003ewith their Catholic saints, whispering tales of a second Marie, who murdered her mother and brought evil to the faith, whispering tales of a third Marie who died in a pool of blood, after abandoning her child to an orphanage. Marie Levant, the fourth Marie, must reclaim her heritage, reclaim the power of voodoo drums transformed to a jazz lament, reclaim her spiritual, womanist power. A contemporary epic and mythic tale, Marie learns \"women hand down sight through generations, mother to daughter.\" She learns that love and passion can be intertwined, marriage and a profession can mix, and that a woman's love can redeem a world. She learns that there is no greater power than a mother's fierce passion and that of a woman secure in her self identity, secure in ancestral heritage as a black woman and a voodoo queen.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, including the Marie Laveau mystery series, \u003ci\u003eMagic City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDouglass' Women\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of numerous children's books, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGhost Boys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Brother, Black Brother\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48030507958423,"sku":"9781451617061","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/4552\/4631\/files\/PJ3DdnxoH19781451617061.webp?v=1784340243","url":"https:\/\/leyambercollective.com\/products\/season-paperback","provider":"Ley Amber Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}