{"product_id":"daughters-of-muscadine-stories-paperback","title":"Daughters of Muscadine: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMonic Ductan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe daughters of Muscadine are Black southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their race and are also estranged from those they love. A remorseful woman tries to connect with the child she gave up for adoption; another, immersed in loneliness, attempts to connect with a violent felon. Two sisters love each other deeply even when they cannot understand one another. A little girl witnessing her father's slow death realizes her own power. A single woman weathers the excitement--and rigors--of online dating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering the last one hundred years, these are stories of people whose voices have been suppressed and erased for too long: Black women, rural women, Appalachian women, and working-class women. Ductan presents the extraordinary nature of everyday lives in the tradition of Alice Walker, Deesha Philyaw, James McBride, and Dorothy Allison in an engaging, engrossing, and exciting new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMonic Ductan\u003c\/b\u003e teaches literature and creative writing at Tennessee Tech University. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals, including\u003ci\u003e Oxford American, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood River Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoutheast Review, Shenandoah, Appalachian Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSouth Carolina Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essay \"Fantasy Worlds\" was listed as notable in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2019.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.4 x 5.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47784401666187,"sku":"9781950564552","price":30.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/u3QMawyB7N9781950564552.webp?v=1782924418","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/daughters-of-muscadine-stories-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}