{"product_id":"2940193075493","title":"Junie","description":"Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award    Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction    Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2024    A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood.  1930s, Hogan's Alley-a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child.  As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood-once gushing with potential-begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves.  Told through the fascinating lens of a bright woman in an oft-disquieting world, this book is intimate and urgent-not just an unflinching look at the destruction of a vibrant community, but a celebration of the Black lives within.","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46326213837041,"sku":"2940193075493","price":22.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940193075493_p0.jpg?v=1765021733","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940193075493","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}