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When stars rain down : a novel / Angela Jackson-Brown.

Jackson-Brown, Angela, 1968- (author.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780785240440
  • ISBN: 0785240446
  • Physical Description: vi, 360 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, 2021.

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General Note:
"Includes discussion questions"-- Back cover.

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Subject:
Race relations > Fiction.
African American teenagers > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Segregation > Fiction.
Violence > Fiction.
Communities > Southern States > Fiction.
Nineteen thirties > Fiction.
Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre:
Coming-of-age fiction
Social problem fiction.
Historical fiction.
Christian fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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