{"product_id":"welcome-to-braggsville","title":"Welcome to Braggsville","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational Bestseller From the PEN\/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed\u003cbr\u003eauthor of Hold It ’Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative\u003cbr\u003eSouthern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic\u003cbr\u003eprotest during a Civil War reenactment—a fierce, funny, tragic work from a\u003cbr\u003ebold new writer. Welcome to Braggsville. The City that Love Built in the\u003cbr\u003eHeart of Georgia. Population 712 Born and raised in the heart of old Dixie,\u003cbr\u003eD’aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at\u003cbr\u003eUC Berkeley. Two thousand miles and a world away from his childhood, he is\u003cbr\u003ea small-town fish floundering in the depths of a large, hyper-liberal pond.\u003cbr\u003eCaught between the prosaic values of his rural hometown and the\u003cbr\u003eintellectualized multicultural cosmopolitanism of Berzerkeley, the\u003cbr\u003enineteen-year-old white kid is uncertain about his place until one\u003cbr\u003edisastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends: Louis, a\u003cbr\u003e“kung-fu comedian\" from California; Candice, an earnest do-gooder claiming\u003cbr\u003eNative roots from Iowa; and Charlie, an introspective inner-city black teen\u003cbr\u003efrom Chicago. They dub themselves the “4 Little Indians.” But everything\u003cbr\u003echanges in the group’s alternative history class, when D’aron lets slip\u003cbr\u003ethat his hometown hosts an annual Civil War reenactment, recently rebranded\u003cbr\u003e“Patriot Days.” His announcement is met with righteous indignation, and\u003cbr\u003einspires Candice to suggest a “performative intervention” to protest the\u003cbr\u003ereenactment. Armed with youthful self-importance, makeshift slave costumes,\u003cbr\u003erighteous zeal, and their own misguided ideas about the South, the 4 Little\u003cbr\u003eIndians descend on Braggsville. Their journey through backwoods churches,\u003cbr\u003ebackroom politics, Waffle Houses, and drunken family barbecues is\u003cbr\u003euproarious to start, but will have devastating consequences. With the keen\u003cbr\u003ewit of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and the deft argot of The Brief\u003cbr\u003eWondrous Life of Oscar Wao, T. Geronimo Johnson has written an astonishing,\u003cbr\u003erazor-sharp satire. Using a panoply of styles and tones, from tragicomic to\u003cbr\u003eSouthern Gothic, he skewers issues of class, race, intellectual and\u003cbr\u003epolitical chauvinism, Obamaism, social media, and much more. A literary\u003cbr\u003ecoming-of-age novel for a new generation, written with tremendous social\u003cbr\u003einsight and a unique, generous heart, Welcome to Braggsville reminds us of\u003cbr\u003ethe promise and perils of youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible\u003cbr\u003eportrait of contemporary America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: T. Geronimo Johnson\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thryft x Books for Charity","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":50668656558361,"sku":"PS3610.O38339W45","price":49.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50668656591129,"sku":"PS3610.O38339W45","price":42.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":50668656623897,"sku":"PS3610.O38339W45","price":38.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":50668656656665,"sku":"PS3610.O38339W45","price":36.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/0062302132.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg?v=1793972898","url":"https:\/\/thryft.my\/products\/welcome-to-braggsville","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}