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Jam on the Vine : a Novel by Barnett, LaShonda Katrice is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jam on the Vine : a Novel about?
**A new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the compelling story of one woman’s struggle for equality that belongs alongside *Jazz* by Toni Morrison and *The Color Purple* by Alice Walker**Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother’s white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson College in Austin, only to return over-qualified to the menial labor offered by her hometown’s racially-biased employers.Ivoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in Kansas City, where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the first female-run African American newspaper, *Jam! On the Vine*. In the throes of the Red Summer—the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the Midwest—Ivoe risks her freedom, and her life, to call attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American prison system.Skillfully interweaving Ivoe’s st
Who reads Jam on the Vine : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Barnett, LaShonda Katrice
- Publisher
- Grove Press : Distributed by Publisher Group West
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802123343
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (484 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14