When stars rain down
(2021)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/JACKSON-BROWN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2021]
DESCRIPTION
vi, 360 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780785240440, 0785240446 :, 0785240446, 9780785240440
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Includes discussion questions"--Page [4] of cover
"Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white attacker. Although slavery is over, Parsons, Georgia is still starkly divided along unequal racial lines and Opal begins to fear the community's thirst for justice on her behalf could ignite a chain reaction with devastating consequences."--Provided by publisher