{"product_id":"74820","title":"Maxine Beneba Clarke - Foreign Soil","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e🔴\u003c\/b\u003e Condition - \u003cb\u003eGood 🔴\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories.\u003cbr\u003eThe book is called FOREIGN SOIL. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.\u003cbr\u003eThe young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving  . . .\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearls Books n Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44875323867327,"sku":"74820","price":9.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5552\/0703\/files\/9780733632426_fda500d4-9aae-4da1-a714-8433f5f60871.jpg?v=1778656131","url":"https:\/\/pearlsbooksfnq.com\/products\/74820","provider":"Pearls Books n Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}