{"product_id":"9781631529641","title":"Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South","description":"In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. In \u003ci\u003eThe Outskirts of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family’s experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":49025646526750,"sku":"9781631529641","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/8436\/0222\/files\/9781631529641_1dbaab7b-5dff-4044-b9d4-88006a00cae2.jpg?v=1785131442","url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781631529641","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}