Set in the late 1950s Louisiana, a young African American female teenager who attends a segregated school gets repeatedly raped by her middle aged white principal. This goes on for a few months and he eventually stops. She graduates and vows to never go back to the South, namely Louisiana. Years have gone by and she's married and living in New York when she finds out her mother has died of breast cancer. She returns for the funeral and unexpectedly meets an familiar stranger from past at the most unlikely of places.
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By Shamontiel Vaughn
Oct 15, 2009
"What I'd like to read..." I edit insurance and test manuscripts daily and I can tell you right now, they're boring. If I had the choice, I'd edit African-American fiction books like these. I love to read stories from a young perspective, and from the sample chapter I read, it would be a delight to curl up and finish this book. Even though the point of the story is dark, the author has a great hand on how young people talk, act, and think. Sometimes when we grow up, we forget that...but not her. The only con I have for this author is that there are several times when verbs go from past to present tense. But the character development and dialogue are what I concentrate on, and this author has that down!
