{"product_id":"sweetsmoke-9781401323318","title":"Sweetsmoke","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Fuller\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything -- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life -- to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life. It is clear that no one cares about her death in the midst of a brutal and hellish war. No one but Cassius, who braves horrific dangers to escape the plantation and avenge her loss. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Cassius seeks answers about Emoline's murder, he finds an unexpected friend and ally in Quashee, a new woman brought over from another plantation; and a formidable adversary in Hoke Howard, the master he has always obeyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With subtlety and beauty, \u003ci\u003eSweetsmoke\u003c\/i\u003e captures the daily indignities and harrowing losses suffered by slaves, the turmoil of a country waging countless wars within its own borders, and the lives of those people fighting for identity, for salvation, and for freedom.","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45356236996759,"sku":"9781401323318","price":2960.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781401323318.webp?v=1767309275","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sweetsmoke-9781401323318","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}