{"product_id":"books-the-unicorn-woman-by-gayl-jones","title":"The Unicorn Woman","description":"'A literary giant' TAYARI JONES  A richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of Corregidora  A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he's a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he's a man on a quest: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.  Returning from the Second World War not to a hero's welcome, but to the discrimination of the Jim Crow laws, Buddy stumbles across the Unicorn Woman, a carnival sideshow with a horn growing from her forehead, whose strange beauty he can't forget.  As he drifts across the South, from Kentucky to Memphis, Buddy encounters a dazzling array of almost mythic characters: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, landladies who provide shelter and plenty of advice for their all-Black clientele, proto feminists and bigots - dreaming all the while of the unforgettable Unicorn Woman herself.  With her inimitable eye for beauty, tragedy and humour, Jones offers a rich, intriguing exploration of the Black imagination in a time of frustration and hope.  'Her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour, and incisiveness, is unmatched' IMANI PERRY  'Gayl Jones is enjoying a dazzling late-career renaissance' SUZI FEAY, TLS  'Intricate, mesmerising and endlessly inventive' DEESHA PHILYAW","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508361355537,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780349016931.jpg?v=1778145172","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-unicorn-woman-by-gayl-jones","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}