{"product_id":"joplins-ghost-a-novel","title":"Joplin's Ghost: A Novel (Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning writer of The Good House, The Living Blood, and more, Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead music legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R \u0026amp; B singer. She's living the life young artists envy and seems destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a historical site in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre, erotic encounters with a spirit who may be the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music of Scott Joplin is strange enough to the ears of the hip-hop generation, but the idea that these antique sounds are being channeled by the protegee of rap superstar G-Ronn is nothing short of ludicrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith growing violence in G-Ronn's inner circle and a ghost bent on living forever through her, Phoenix's life suddenly hangs in the balance,\" writes Tananarive Due. Can the power of her own inner song and the love of a music writer who believes in her give Phoenix the strength to fight to live out her own future? Or will she be trapped forever in Scott Joplin's doomed, tragic past?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ink Crypt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48816719659264,"sku":"9780743449038","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/2233\/9584\/files\/9780743449038.jpg?v=1781031124","url":"https:\/\/theinkcrypt.com\/products\/joplins-ghost-a-novel","provider":"The Ink Crypt","version":"1.0","type":"link"}