Memphis-born writer, critic, and editor-in-chief of The Oxford American Danielle Amir Jackson's HONEY'S GRILL: SEX, FREEDOM, AND WOMEN OF THE BLUES, an intimate history of the blues as both music and a way of life, told through three generations of the author's family and centered around her grandmother's Memphis juke joint, weaving in stories of often-overlooked female singers in Blues history, and revealing how the blues inspired and reflected new freedoms of sexuality and desire for Black women through decades of social and cultural change, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, by Alice Whitwham at The Cheney Agency (world).

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