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Josephine's Incredible Shoe & The Blackpearls Josephine's Incredible Shoe & The Blackpearls is a book written by Peggy Eve Anderson-Randolph. Even though the book is considered fiction, the historical setting is accurate. The writer did years of research to accomplish this. For this book the writer won the SouthWest Writers' "Mainstream or Literary Novel" first prize in 2009.

The book is about Tally and Chat Blackpearl, and how they move from a good life to a better one. The book explores their success which might have been caused by either wit and perseverance or by their talisman, a gorgeous shoe. This shoe might have belonged to Josephine Baker, with whom Chat Blackpearl had a brief fling. In the story the reader travels with the Blackpearls from a Black college in Ohio through the South, via the Panama Canal to Los Angeles. Life as Black Americans is shared in this uplifting story.

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