Overview
An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north-- if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching. Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy. A South Carolina Book Award NomineeA New York Public Library Best Book of the YearA Horn Book Fanfare BookA Booklist Editors' Choice A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Book of the YearA BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the YearA Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding MeritA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
- | Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
- | Publisher: Holiday House
- | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0823450155
- | ISBN-13: 9780823450152
