{"product_id":"9781454951544","title":"Contending Forces by Hopkins, Pauline E.","description":"Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e9781454951544\u003cbr\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.       \u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The Book Elephant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50732695519565,"sku":"9781454951544","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/0808\/6605\/files\/9781454951544.jpg?v=1734617336","url":"https:\/\/thebookelephant.co.uk\/products\/9781454951544","provider":"The Book Elephant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}