{"product_id":"welcome-to-braggsville-9780062302137","title":"Welcome to Braggsville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 BY \u003cem\u003eTHE\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMEN'S JOURNAL\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCHICAGO TRIBUNE, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eKANSAS CITY STAR, BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, \u003c\/em\u003eNPR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE DAILY BEAST, AND BUZZFEED\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2015 ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the PEN\/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWelcome to Braggsville. The City that Love Built in the Heart of Georgia. Population 712\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in the heart of old Dixie, D'aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at UC Berkeley. Two thousand miles and a world away from his childhood, he is a small-town fish floundering in the depths of a large, hyper-liberal pond. Caught between the prosaic values of his rural hometown and the intellectualized multicultural cosmopolitanism of Berzerkeley, the nineteen-year-old white kid is uncertain about his place until one disastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends: Louis, a \"kung-fu comedian\" from California; Candice, an earnest do-gooder claiming Native roots from Iowa; and Charlie, an introspective inner-city black teen from Chicago. They dub themselves the \"4 Little Indians.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut everything changes in the group's alternative history class, when D'aron lets slip that his hometown hosts an annual Civil War reenactment, recently rebranded \"Patriot Days.\" His announcement is met with righteous indignation, and inspires Candice to suggest a \"performative intervention\" to protest the reenactment. Armed with youthful self-importance, makeshift slave costumes, righteous zeal, and their own misguided ideas about the South, the 4 Little Indians descend on Braggsville. Their journey through backwoods churches, backroom politics, Waffle Houses, and drunken family barbecues is uproarious to start, but will have devastating consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the keen wit of \u003cem\u003eBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk\u003c\/em\u003e and the deft argot of \u003cem\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/em\u003e, T. Geronimo Johnson has written an astonishing, razor-sharp satire. Using a panoply of styles and tones, from tragicomic to Southern Gothic, he skewers issues of class, race, intellectual and political chauvinism, Obamaism, social media, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary coming-of-age novel for a new generation, written with tremendous social insight and a unique, generous heart, \u003cem\u003eWelcome to Braggsville\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us of the promise and perils of youthful exuberance, while painting an indelible portrait of contemporary America.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. Geronimo Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062302137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/2015 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnson, T. Geronimo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in the American South, T. 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