{"product_id":"high-cotton-9781949259094","title":"High Cotton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST -- 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Johnson's moving work offers a welcome sense of solidarity and commonality to its readers.\" -\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did five generations of African American women before her beginning with a slave, her oldest known ancestor. In \u003cem\u003eHigh Cotton\u003c\/em\u003e, Johnson explores the social and economic consequences of her lineage, drawing on pivotal moments from her own experience to illuminate the lived reality of a daughter of the Deep South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson unapologetically describes a life that falls below the standards of black respectability, that of an unmarried young mother, an addict's daughter, a college dropout, welfare recipient, and willful sinner. The voice in \u003cem\u003eHigh Cotton\u003c\/em\u003e is a cry from within the masses. Johnson stretches out long brown fingers as far as they will reach to barely skim the first, crucial rung of the ladder to success, that so-called American dream. She exposes the soft underbelly of black girl magic, celebrating black life in all its glorious vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in High Cotton contain all the complication of a post-civil rights era, post-women's liberation, pre-millennial black woman living in the modern South, conjuring universal truths every reader will recognize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristie Robin Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Raised Voice Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949259094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnson, Kristie Robin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kristie Robin Johnson is an educator, essayist, and poet. She is Assistant Professor of English and Department Chair for Humanities at Georgia Military College, Augusta. She earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rigorous, Split Lip Magazine, ESME, Under the Gum Tree, Lunch Ticket, riverSedge, and other journals and publications. Kristie's writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received honorable mention in the AWP Intro to Journals Project. HIGH COTTON is her first book. She resides in Grovetown, Georgia, with her two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raised Voice Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39829109244019,"sku":"9781949259094","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_19c71f8e-9f68-42b3-87a5-52b57d15e719.jpg?v=1644608718","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/high-cotton-9781949259094","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}