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    "description": "<p><em>If you've ever tasted the after rain clay dirt on a Kansas summer afternoon, or if you've ever secretly wanted to, you may understand why I was often tempted to eat a stick of chalk. It held the smell of that clay dirt.</em></p>\n<p>Irene Wilson knows that a &lsquo;no-name invisible something&rsquo; has settled over her parents&rsquo; marriage, and suspects her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighbourhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair.</p>\n<p>As Irene is initiated into adult passion and loss, her family story takes its place in a tightly woven tapestry of individuals whose griefs and joys are as vivid as her own.</p>\n<p>Through the strong smells of manure and bacon wafting downriver from the stockyards, roadhouses playing the latest jazz and radios at Union Hall broadcasting warnings to the low-lying communities along the rivers, Clair has captured an entire world through the eyes of its unforgettable heroine.&nbsp;<em>Rattlebone</em>&nbsp;is a one-of-a-kind triumph of American fiction, for fans of Daphne Palasi Andreades&rsquo;&nbsp;<em>Brown Girls</em>&nbsp;and Jamaica Kincaid&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Annie John</em>.</p>",
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