{"title":"Golden Hour Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"persepolis","title":"Persepolis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSatrapi grew up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. She drew her childhood in black and white because that's what it felt like — the colors of ordinary life draining away as the revolution hardened into something her parents hadn't voted for. A graphic memoir that made more people understand Iran than any diplomatic briefing. The dispatch that proved comics could carry the weight of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk and Pedagogy","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45718934880454,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45718934913222,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/persepolis.webp?v=1761505222"},{"product_id":"catch-22","title":"Catch-22","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHeller’s masterpiece turns military madness into perfect logic: you can’t escape the war because wanting to escape it means you’re sane enough to fight it. A circular scream disguised as comedy, \u003cem data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"456\"\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e captures the lunacy of power and the futility of reason in a world built on contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767754285254,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767754318022,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/catch-22.webp?v=1761505258"},{"product_id":"a-thousand-splendid-suns","title":"A Thousand Splendid Suns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMariam and Laila are brought together in a Kabul household across thirty years of conflict — the Soviet occupation, the civil war, the Taliban, the American invasion. Hosseini gives them the full weight of Afghan women's experience — not as victims but as people making impossible choices with extraordinary courage. The companion dispatch to The Kite Runner, covering the same history from the perspective of the women the men's stories left out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767752024262,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767752057030,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/a-thousand-splendid-suns.webp?v=1774281764"},{"product_id":"born-a-crime","title":"Born a Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNoah was born to a Black South African mother and a white Swiss father at a time when their relationship was literally criminal under the Immorality Act. He spent his childhood hiding — from police, from his stepfather, from a system that had no category for what he was. These memoir essays use humor as the primary instrument of dispatch — not to minimize what apartheid was but to reveal its absurdity from the inside. The most accessible entry point to South African history on this shelf and the funniest. The laugh that doesn't let you look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767703593158,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767703625926,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/born-a-crime.webp?v=1774480811"},{"product_id":"killers-of-the-flower-moon","title":"Killers of the Flower Moon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eThe Osage murders reconstructed from FBI files, family testimony, and decades of buried history. In the 1920s the Osage Nation was the wealthiest people per capita in the world — oil under their Oklahoma land. Then they started dying. Grann spent years in the archives and with the Osage community and what he found was a conspiracy so extensive it implicated an entire county and led to the founding of the modern FBI. The most important American true crime book ever written, because the crime is not just murder — it is what America does to Native wealth.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Punk and Pedagogy","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45718746988742,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45718747021510,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/killers-of-the-flower-moon.webp?v=1774906173"},{"product_id":"invisible-man","title":"Invisible Man","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eA nameless Black man lives in a basement in Harlem, surrounded by 1,369 light bulbs, writing his story. The novel moves through his life — the South, a Black college, New York, the Brotherhood — as he tries to find a place in a country that has decided not to see him. Ellison published this in 1952 and it named something that American society had been carefully not naming. The most formally ambitious African American novel ever written. A dispatch from inside the experience of being seen and unseen simultaneously, of being a symbol to everyone and a person to no one.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45716795982022,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45716796014790,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/invisible-man.jpg?v=1774906370"},{"product_id":"sing-unburied-sing","title":"Sing, Unburied, Sing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eMississippi, present day. Jojo is thirteen, mixed-race, being raised by his Black grandparents while his mother Leonie — addicted, unreliable, beautiful — drives them across the state to pick up his white father from prison. The dead travel alongside the living. Ward writes the South as a haunted landscape where the violence of the past is not metaphor — it is present, insistent, and requires acknowledgment before it will let the living be. National Book Award winner.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767748026566,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767748059334,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/sing-unburied-sing.webp?v=1774906634"},{"product_id":"the-sympathizer","title":"The Sympathizer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eA Communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army flees to America after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and writes his confession to a Commandant who may or may not be sympathetic. Nguyen writes in a voice that is simultaneously inside both sides — the spy who understands the Americans and the Vietnamese, the exile who belongs fully to neither — and uses that position to dismantle every myth the Vietnam War produced. Pulitzer Prize winner. The dispatch that finally gave the war back to the Vietnamese people who fought it on both sides.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Punk and Pedagogy","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45718843392198,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45718843424966,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/the-sympathizer.webp?v=1774925192"},{"product_id":"all-we-can-save","title":"All We Can Save","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eSixty women — scientists, poets, farmers, lawyers, activists, Indigenous land defenders — writing about the climate crisis from inside their specific expertise and their specific grief. Johnson and Wilkinson assembled this anthology because they noticed that the climate conversation was dominated by men with graphs, and that the people doing the most creative and grounded work were often women who weren't getting the microphone. What emerged is the most emotionally complete climate book ever published — not a single argument but a chorus, not a problem to be solved but a world to be tended. The poems are as rigorous as the science. The science is as personal as the poems. The most important Make Something Better book on the climate shelf.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767718240454,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767718273222,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/all-we-can-save.webp?v=1776318249"},{"product_id":"white-fragility","title":"White Fragility","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eDiAngelo spent years leading diversity trainings in corporate America and noticed a pattern: the moment race was named, white participants became defensive, tearful, angry, or silent — responses that effectively shut down the conversation and centered white discomfort over Black experience. She named this white fragility and wrote a book explaining where it comes from, how it operates, and why it is so effective at protecting the racial status quo. Controversial in some of its prescriptions and essential in its diagnosis. The most widely read book about white racial identity in a generation — not because it is the most rigorous but because it named something that had been happening in rooms everywhere without a vocabulary. Read alongside Caste and The New Jim Crow for the full picture.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767713095878,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767713128646,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/white-fragility.webp?v=1776706962"},{"product_id":"good-night-stories-for-rebel-girls-new-edition","title":"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (New Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eOne hundred women — scientists, athletes, activists, artists, leaders, pirates — each given a full-page portrait and a page of their story, written directly to the child reading it. Favilli and Francesca Cavallo started with a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 that broke records. The new edition updates the collection with more recent figures and more global representation. Not a book about women who overcame obstacles to succeed in male-defined terms — a book about women who defined success on their own terms across every field and every culture. The most widely gifted children's book about women's achievement of the last decade and the one that most completely refuses to present any single model of what a girl's life should look like.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767710474438,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767710507206,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/good-night-stories-for-rebel-girls.jpg?v=1776722506"},{"product_id":"a-different-mirror","title":"A Different Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTakaki was a third-generation Japanese American historian who spent his career asking a simple question: what does American history look like when you tell it from the perspective of everyone who lived it — not just the white Protestant men who wrote the official version? The answer spans Irish immigrants, Black slaves, Chinese railroad workers, Mexican farmworkers, Japanese internees, Indigenous nations — each group's story told in their own words where possible, woven into a single narrative that is recognizably American and completely unlike the history most Americans were taught. The most comprehensive multicultural history of the United States ever written for a general audience. The book that makes the standard American history curriculum look like the selective mythology it always was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767792787654,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767792820422,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/a-different-mirror.jpg?v=1777156421"},{"product_id":"the-metaphysical-club-a-story-of-ideas-in-america","title":"The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eFour people met in Cambridge, Massachusetts after the Civil War — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey — and their conversations produced pragmatism, the only genuinely American philosophy. Menand traces how the war's mass slaughter of young men who died for absolute beliefs produced a generation of thinkers who became allergic to certainty — who decided that ideas are tools, not truths, and that their value lies in what they do rather than what they are. That philosophy shaped American law, education, psychology, and science. Pulitzer Prize winner. The most important intellectual history of America ever written for a general audience — the book that shows where the assumptions running American institutions actually came from.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767805468870,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767805501638,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/the-metaphysical-club.jpg?v=1777156742"},{"product_id":"white-rage-the-unspoken-truth-of-our-racial-divide","title":"White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eAnderson's argument is precise and devastating: every time Black Americans have made significant progress — Reconstruction, the Great Migration, Brown v. Board, the Civil Rights Act, the election of Barack Obama — white rage has risen to meet it, not as random violence but as deliberate policy. Black Codes, convict leasing, redlining, voter suppression, the defunding of public schools — each one a legal, institutional response to Black advancement. Anderson traces this pattern from the end of the Civil War to the present with the rigor of a historian and the fury of someone who has watched it happen in real time. The most important companion to The Warmth of Other Suns and The New Jim Crow — those books show what Black Americans built and lost; this one shows exactly who kept dismantling it and how.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45767813628102,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45767813660870,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/white-rage.webp?v=1777156979"},{"product_id":"a-fever-in-the-heartland","title":"A Fever in the Heartland","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eIn the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan had four to six million members — not in the rural South but in the cities and suburbs of the Midwest, in Indiana, Ohio, Colorado, Oregon. They ran school boards, elected governors, controlled police departments. They were not a fringe. They were mainstream. Egan reconstructs this through D.C. Stephenson, the Klan's Grand Dragon in Indiana, whose rise and spectacular fall — convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman — brought the whole edifice down. The most important American history book about how white supremacy operates not at the margins but at the center, dressed in civic respectability. The book that makes clear that what feels unprecedented has happened before, in the heartland, in living memory.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45818558251206,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45818558283974,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/a-fever-in-the-heartland.webp?v=1778016102"},{"product_id":"the-mountains-sing","title":"The Mountains Sing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eFour generations of the Trần family across the full arc of Vietnamese 20th century history — the French colonial period, land reform under Ho Chi Minh, the American war, the fall of Saigon, the aftermath. Grandmother Diệu Lan has survived everything and is now trying to hold her granddaughter Hương together in the ruins of Hanoi. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai writes in English — her third language — with a precision and tenderness that makes every loss specific and every act of survival count. The dispatch that completes the Vietnam shelf alongside The Sympathizer and The Sorrow of War: Nguyen gives you the diaspora's reckoning, Bảo Ninh gives you the soldier's grief, and this book gives you the women and the land across a century of war.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45818566377670,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45818566410438,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/the-mountains-sing.jpg?v=1778016359"},{"product_id":"split-the-sk","title":"Split the Sky","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eLala Russell is fifteen, a gifted cellist, and has social justice fatigue — the exhaustion of being Black in a Texas sundown town where the Confederate flag is a permanent fixture and racism is the weather. She also has the gift of Flashing: premonitions passed down through the women in her family. When a Flash shows her a Black teenager about to be shot by a white homeowner, she faces an impossible question — save one life or use that death to ignite a larger movement that could save many. Arnold uses magical realism to put a name to something rarely addressed in YA: the specific exhaustion of being expected to be a constant activist when you're also just trying to survive and play the cello. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. The most honest YA novel about social justice fatigue ever written.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45818574078150,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45818574110918,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/split-the-sky.webp?v=1778016647"},{"product_id":"let-us-descend","title":"Let Us Descend","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eAnnis is enslaved, sold south by the white man who fathered her, marched from the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into a Louisiana sugar plantation. Ward structures the journey as a descent through hell — Dante's Inferno turned toward Black American experience — with Annis accompanied by the spirits of her warrior grandmother and the elemental forces of earth and water that her mother taught her to hear. Ward does not look away from what slavery did to bodies. She also does not let the body be the whole story — Annis's interior life, her ancestral connection, her spiritual world are as real and as present as the chains. The most formally ambitious American slavery novel since Beloved, and the one that most completely refuses to let the institution stand in for the person living inside it.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45818592067782,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45818592100550,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/let-us-descend.jpg?v=1778017001"},{"product_id":"the-island-of-sea-women","title":"The Island of Sea Women","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-value\"\u003eMi-ja and Young-sook grow up together on Jeju Island, diving as haenyeo — the all-female free-diving collective that has sustained the island's families for centuries, women going 30 feet down without equipment to harvest abalone and sea urchin while their husbands keep house. They are friends through Japanese colonial rule, through WWII, through marriage and children. Then the April 3rd Incident arrives — 1948, a US-backed South Korean government massacre of thousands of Jeju civilians suspected of communist sympathies, covered up for decades. One moment of betrayal during the killings ends their friendship for sixty years. See builds the entire novel around that rupture and the history that made it — Japanese occupation followed by American occupation that proved equally brutal, a matriarchal society caught between warring empires that had no interest in what the women of Jeju had built. A visitor dispatch rigorously researched from primary sources and interviews with haenyeo women.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":45818602291398,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used Copy","offer_id":45818602324166,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/the-island-of-sea-women.webp?v=1778017391"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/collections\/gh-icon.png?v=1776179454","url":"https:\/\/punkandpedagogy.com\/collections\/golden-hour-books.oembed","provider":"Punk and Pedagogy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}