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A new American classic: a vibrant story of triumph against the odds and the engaging story of one woman's struggle for equality that belongs alongside Jazz by Toni Morrison and The Color Crimson by Alice Walker. Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of your Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a papers from her mother's white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in printed subject as an escape from her dour environment. She makes a scholarship or grant to the esteemed Willetson College in Austin only to returning overqualified 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 past teacher and enthusiast, Ona, found the first female-run African-American papers, Jam! For the Vine. Inside the throes of the Red Warmer summer months, the 1919 outbreak of lynchings, and race riots over the Midwest, Ivoe challenges her freedom and her life to call focus on the atrocities of segregation in the American jail system. Skillfully interweaving Ivoe's report with the reports of her family members, LaShonda Katrice Barnett's Jam on the Vine is both an epic perspective of the hardships and injustices that identified an era and a moving and engaging story of a complicated history we only thought we knew.
