{"product_id":"break-any-woman-down-stories-paperback","title":"Break Any Woman Down: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDana Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBreak Any Woman Down\u003c\/i\u003e, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping. In \"Melvin in the Sixth Grade,\" eleven-year-old Avery has a crush on a white boy from Oklahoma who, like Avery, is an outsider in their suburban Los Angeles school. \"Markers\" is as much about a woman's relationship with her mother as it is about the dissolution of her relationship with an older Italian man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDana Johnson has an intuitive sense of character and a gift for creating authentic voices. She effortlessly captures the rhythmic vernaculars of Los Angeles, the American South, and various immigrant communities as she brings to life the sometimes heavyhearted, but always persevering, souls who live there.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDANA JOHNSON is a professor of English in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eElsewhere, California: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52522295755059,"sku":"9780820344492","price":32.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dW9wVjVhQ1IycXBMN3VwWnU5enB6QT09.webp?v=1760547203","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/break-any-woman-down-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}