{"product_id":"9781454951544","title":"Contending Forces","description":"\u003cp\u003eSappho Clark?beautiful, mysterious, Southern?arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma Smith is impressed by Sappho's financial independence; Dora Smith admires Sappho's quiet self-possession; and Will Smith, Dora's brother, falls madly in love with Sappho. But as Sappho enters the Smiths' community, it becomes clear that her beauty is a lure to bad actors, including someone who entertains dark suspicions about her past. . .   A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston's thriving, politically active middle-class Black community, Contending Forces is an unjustly forgotten American classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Union Square \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Pauline E, \/ Hopkins","offer_id":48925308551482,"sku":"9781454951544","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781454951544.jpg?v=1719057896","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781454951544","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}