{"product_id":"maud-martha-faber-editions","title":"Maud Martha (Faber Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by Margo Jefferson, this forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman's coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat, what, am I to do with all of this life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1953 but never published in Britain, Maud Martha is a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.'\u003cbr\u003e\n- Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gwendolyn Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49013933310105,"sku":"9780571373253","price":790.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/5642\/6905\/files\/maud-martha-faber-editions_07b44e8e-3196-4fe6-a78f-89e80df3d851.jpg?v=1789229391","url":"https:\/\/booksworldstore.com\/products\/maud-martha-faber-editions","provider":"Books World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}