{"product_id":"virgin-soul-by-judy-juanita","title":"Virgin Soul by Judy Juanita","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrabbed this book cuz of the title and cuz it had to do with the Black Panthers. And \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVirgin Soul\u003c\/em\u003ereally is an excellent novel about a young woman figuring things out during college. It’s separated into sections like that–freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. Like me, Geniece went to a local college first then transferred to a state university (well mine wasn’t state but we both transferred). And went to grad school after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnyway, Geniece is a great narrator. She’s trying to find her way, and she specifically doesn’t want to be naïve to what goes on. She meets a guy early on who quickly gets her involved in the revolution. He destroys her books and tells her to read ones by James Baldwin and Paulo Freire and the like. That’s her first real relationship and lover and all that and he’s alright, but eventually he goes to a new school and so does she.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeniece ends up getting even more radicalized at that school, where she continues to write journalistic pieces for school and for the Panthers. Her writing is also of interest to me because she has great ideas and is essentially writing through her thoughts. She begins messing with a new guy who sucks (tho he is relevant to the organization). She also tutors young kids and finds herself in offhanded situations and then gets pregnant. Like yea that’s pretty much how it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest line:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Individual freedom and hippies and Black Panthers and Blackness with a capital B and Robert Williams and armed struggle and Martin Luther King Jr., and Bull Connor’s hoses and snarling dogs and tie-died clothes and African art and Aretha Franklin and lava lamps and bell-bottoms, miniskirts, and Fillmore West–it all began to mere. I was beginning to suspend categorization. I couldn’t cross people and incidents off the list as casually as i had done before. Right and wrong, good and evil, those categories couldn’t hold a candle with what was compelling, educational, eye opening. My eyes were being propped open, wider every day in San Francisco. Sometimes every hour.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Judy Juanita\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Rachel Wagner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ten Dollar Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51596220596391,"sku":"ctx1792672552411","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/0160\/8871\/files\/virgin-soul-by-judy-juanita_1.jpg?v=1792672557","url":"https:\/\/reedcatcollar.shop\/products\/virgin-soul-by-judy-juanita","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}