{"product_id":"bull-jean-demdey-back-by-sharon-bridgforth-9781737025566","title":"bull-jean \u0026 dem\/dey back","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ebull-jean \u0026amp; dem\/dey back\u003c\/em\u003e collects two performance\/novels centring Sharon Bridgforth's southern-Black-butch-shero, bull-jean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning \u003cem\u003ethe bull-jean stories\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the course of love returning in the life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s South, \u003cem\u003ethe bull-jean stories\u003c\/em\u003e is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed — the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching woman-loving-woman bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in \u003cem\u003ebull-jean\/we wake\u003c\/em\u003e. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting old folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realisation of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854187188460,"sku":"9781737025566","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12328923482806.jpg?v=1759236118","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/bull-jean-demdey-back-by-sharon-bridgforth-9781737025566","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}