{"product_id":"the-rib-king-1","title":"The Rib King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThrillist - 30 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBook Riot – Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eReal Simple – The Best New Books to Read in 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eChicago Review of Books – 12 Must-Read Books of January \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBook Riot – January 2021 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGlamour--7 of the Best New Books in January\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVulture – 46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLit Hub – Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGMA.com – 16 January reads for the new year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHarper’s Bazaar – 24 Books You Need to Read in 2021 -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Millions – Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePopsugar – From Bravery to Outlawed – These Are the Best Books of January 2021 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMs. Magazine – January 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBustle – The Best New Books, Week of January 18\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVulture – 27 Notable New Releases Over the Next Two Weeks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLit Hub – 14 new books to fuel your reading resolutions \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Ultimately the\u003cbr\u003ereason to read\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rib King\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis not its timeliness or its insight into politics\u003cbr\u003eor Black culture, but because it accomplishes what the best fiction sets out to\u003cbr\u003edo: It drops you into a world you could not otherwise visit and makes you care\u003cbr\u003edeeply about what happens there.”--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBookPage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe acclaimed author\u003cbr\u003eof \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Talented Ribkins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deconstructs painful African American stereotypes and\u003cbr\u003eoffers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition,\u003cbr\u003eexploitation, and the seeds of rage in America in this intricately woven and\u003cbr\u003emasterfully executed historical novel, set in early the twentieth century that\u003cbr\u003ecenters around the black servants of a down-on-its heels upper-class white\u003cbr\u003efamily.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor fifteen years\u003cbr\u003eAugust Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who\u003cbr\u003eplucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part\u003cbr\u003eof the household’s all-black staff, along with “Miss Mamie,” the talented cook,\u003cbr\u003epretty new maid Jennie Williams, and three young kitchen apprentices—the latest\u003cbr\u003eorphan boys Mr. Barclay has taken in to \"civilize\" boys like August.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the Barclays\u003cbr\u003efortunes have fallen, and their money is almost gone. When a prospective\u003cbr\u003ebusiness associate proposes selling Miss Mamie’s delicious rib sauce to local\u003cbr\u003emarkets under the brand name “The Rib King”—using a caricature of a wildly\u003cbr\u003egrinning August on the label—Mr. Barclay, desperate for cash, agrees. Yet\u003cbr\u003eneither Miss Mamie nor August will see a dime. Humiliated, August grows\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly distraught, his anger building to a rage that explodes in shocking\u003cbr\u003etragedy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElegantly written and\u003cbr\u003eexhaustively researched, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rib King\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an unsparing examination of America’s\u003cbr\u003efascination with black iconography and exploitation that redefines African\u003cbr\u003eAmerican stereotypes in literature. In this powerful, disturbing, and timely\u003cbr\u003enovel, Ladee Hubbard reveals who people actually are, and most importantly, who\u003cbr\u003eand what they are not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ladee Hubbard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45497060360368,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/81SrQqwG3bL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785565357","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/the-rib-king-1","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}