{"product_id":"love-on-the-line-an-unforgettable-work-of-african-american-literature-about-identity-race-and-a-mother-daughter-bond-tested-by-passing","title":"Love on the Line: An Unforgettable Work of African American Literature About Identity, Race, and a Mother-Daughter Bond Tested by Passing","description":"Identity, attitudes, and culture collide as a mother and\ndaughter's values and backgrounds are challenged by everyone around them in\nthis newly updated version of a Laura Castoro classic.\nThea Morgan—no,\nThornton—is thrilled about starting life with her new husband Xavier. After so many years apart, it was truly a blessing\nthat they found each other again. But the new life is going to take some\nadjustment.\nUsed to being high-powered lawyer, Thea is having difficulty balancing\nthat with her new role as the preacher’s wife in small town Arkansas. And the\ntownspeople in Xavier’s new parish are watching her life a hawk—most of all,\nMrs. Hattie Patterson, the chairwoman of Pastoral Relations Committee, who has\nher own ideas about how things should be done. With her demanding job and light\nskin, Thea will have to go far to prove to the people—Mrs. Hattie—of St.\nHurricane AME Church that she can be who she is and still be one of them.\nOn the other side of the country, Thea’s daughter Jesse is having an\nidentity crisis of her own. Off at college and away from those who’ve known her\nfor her entire life, Jesse has the chance to reinvent herself. But is it a\nchance worth taking? The child of a light-skinned black woman and a white man,\nJesse has blond hair and blue eyes. No one would know her heritage if she\ndidn’t tell them, leaving Jesse to face a difficult realization: is she forging\na new path in life, free of any preconceived notions? Or is she hiding her\nidentity and denying her roots?\n\nWith skill and grace,\nLaura Castoro deftly examines issues of race and women’s place in the world\nthat fans, new and old, will revel in for years to come.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0063092956\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0063092956.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Castoro, Laura\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46452047315141,"sku":"LFV.0063092956.VG","price":10.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/love-on-the-line-an-unforgettable-work-of-african-american-literature-about-identity-race-and-a-mother-daughter-bond-tested-by-passing","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}