{"product_id":"9780765387868","title":"The Ballad of Black Tom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his  father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows  what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide,  and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy  white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome  to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a  deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left  sleeping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"LaValle's  novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a  magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do.\" \u003cbr\u003e— Laird Barron, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[LaValle]  reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the  ghettos of  genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from  popular  fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e— Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in Silver\u003c\/i\u003e from Elizabeth Hand, author of \u003ci\u003eRadiant Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               “LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon… [\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Black Tom\u003c\/i\u003e] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for \u003ci\u003eFantasy \u0026amp; ScienceFiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371233513533,"sku":"9780765387868","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780765387868_p0.jpg?v=1771575428","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780765387868","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}