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"West has woven a rich story filled with warmth, faith, and hope while also incisively exploring the limits of resilience." ?Maisy Card, author of?These Ghosts Are Family?In 1960s?Memphis, a?young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free.?? Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom Riders. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King Jr. are leading the fight for equal rights. Black literature and music provide the stories and soundtrack for these turbulent and hopeful times, and Sara finds herself drawn in by conversations of education, politics

Author : Catherine Adel West

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ISBN-10 : 9780778387077

ISBN-13 : 9780778387077