When stars rain down a novel
In When Stars Rain Down, Angela Jackson-Brown introduces readers to a small, Southern town grappling with haunting questions still relevant today---and to a young woman whose search for meaning resonates across the ages.
| Main Author: | Jackson-Brown, Angela, 1968- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Nashville, TN :
Thomas Nelson,
2021.
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| Summary: |
In When Stars Rain Down, Angela Jackson-Brown introduces readers to a small, Southern town grappling with haunting questions still relevant today---and to a young woman whose search for meaning resonates across the ages. "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." -- Library Journal |
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| Physical Description: |
360 pages |
| ISBN: |
9780785240440 0785240446 |