{"product_id":"relocations-of-the-spirit-essays-9781559210683","title":"Relocations of the Spirit: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collections opening autobiographical essay entitled \"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed\"  Leon Forrest tells us that he came from a lower-middle-class Negro household on the South Side of Chicago. My father was a bartender on the Santa Fe Railroad and Daddy would read to me and my mother when he was at home. My mother read to me constantly. My great-grandmother lived with us until I was ten  and I used to read the Bible to her  mainly the Old Testament\". Leon Forrests lifetime love of words shines forth in the essays  articles  and book reviews that comprise this volume. We share his fine-tuned  careful perceptions in essays on the moment of epiphany in the black Baptist church  on Michael Jordan  on Toni Morrisons novel  Sula  on William Faulkner  on Billie Holiday  on the sculptor Richard Hunt  among many others. Book reviews address James Baldwins Just Above My Head  Joyce Carol Oates Son of the Morning  Rita Mae Browns Six on One  and The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges. In each  we learn something new  about literature  about life  about ourselves. The pieces in Relocation of the Spirit traverse twenty years in American culture. Leon Forrest was there as witness - and we are wiser for his observations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276984246325,"sku":"ByrdShop_1559210680","price":334.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781559210683.jpg?v=1780568562","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/relocations-of-the-spirit-essays-9781559210683","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}