{"product_id":"payback-2","title":"Payback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward-winning author Penny Mickelbury takes readers on a beautiful and complicated journey through Harlem in 1953. This captivating story is passionate and alive, teeming with the contradictory joy and pain of Black life in America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWorld War II ended less than 10 years ago, and the Korean War less than one. But no one has recovered from wartime privations, especially the Colored soldiers who fought a ruthless enemy on foreign lands, expecting to return home with all the rights and privileges of American citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBut those rights and privileges remain few and far between, and Mickelbury’s cast of characters find themselves reflecting on the Harlem they call home: they are educated and unschooled; wealthy and desperately poor; committed to improving circumstances for Negroes and abjectly hopeless. They create a family of and for themselves—women, men, children, gays, and the proudly self-named. They commit themselves to helping create a world to benefit their people based on hard work, artistic expression, and faith in their community.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThey have learned to live in the larger world by two guiding principles: Each One Teaches One, and Harm to One is Harm to All—because in this neighborhood, payback will always be swift and painful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46168101224625,"sku":"9781612943039","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46168101257393,"sku":"69f9416f-a5a8-3758-864a-aea246a63d2c","price":13.56,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_0e29c54a-4f4f-46ab-bb38-4506093ff607.jpg?v=1763407854","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/payback-2","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}