{"product_id":"the-last-children-of-mill-creek-1948742640","title":"The Last Children of Mill Creek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1948742640\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gibson, Vivian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bestselling memoir of a vibrant childhood spent in a thriving St. Louis African American community before urban renewal changed everything.Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood in St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as progress. A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present, The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibsons large family-her seven siblings, her crafty, college-educated mother, and her hard-working father-and the friends, shop owners, church ladies, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit African American community. In Gibsons words, This memoir is about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girl-a collection of decidedly universal stories that chronicle the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.Winner of a Missouri Humanities award for literary achievement, The Last Children of Mill Creek is an important book for anyone interested in urban development, race, and community history-or for anyone who was once a child.Praise for The Last Children of Mill Creek2022 Missouri Author of the Year WinnerMissouri's Great Reads from Great Places Selection for the 2023 National Book FestivalThis is a story borne aloft by the sheer human joy of storytelling, of memory, of tender love for a mother and a father and for a vanished time and place. It is a book that, while steadfastly refusing the American fiction of color blindness, just as steadfastly refuses to portray Black life through the single warped lens of white-induced pain. -TheLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196945723680,"sku":"NEW1948742640","price":22.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/715ZHNvlCLL.jpg?v=1786957020","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-last-children-of-mill-creek-1948742640","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}