{"product_id":"sweet-water-a-novel","title":"Sweet Water \/\/ A Novel (Pre-order, March 2 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the PEN-nominated author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a moving novel about two women connected by music, memory—and murder.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTexas, 1983. Lola Jones is in prison for the death of her mother’s former lover, a man whose presence tangled itself through both their lives. After years of silence, Lola writes a letter to the dead man’s daughter—the “secret sister” from the better part of town in whose shadow Lola has lived most of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Lola reaches across time and memory, her story unfolds in two mirrored movements: the first, a chronicle of her mother, Camille, a blues singer shaped by love, ambition, and loss; the second, a recounting of Lola’s own coming of age in the echo of Camille’s legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBraided with music, memory, and the weight of being misunderstood,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet Water\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eexplores inheritance, identity, and the ways women learn to survive what they cannot control. It is a story about Black women connected and separated by their experiences with each other, and with the men in their lives. Written as a letter, structured like a blues song—call and response, verse and refrain—the novel asks what it means to reclaim your voice when someone else’s pain has defined your existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRae Giana Rashad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the PEN-nominated author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. A native Texan, she lives in the Dallas area with her husband and children. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her second novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHarper\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780063484276\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9 in H | 6 in W | 1.4 lb Wt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Rae Giana Rashad","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, March 2 2027) Hardcover","offer_id":49098300260587,"sku":"9780063484276","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/covercomingsoon_0fc32c32-4e4a-4700-91e1-92152631b026.png?v=1782248303","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/sweet-water-a-novel","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}