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A powerful portrait of a Southern town rebuilding its memory around race and courage.
This novel follows intertwined lives in Dothan, Alabama, as residents confront a painful past and question what true bravery requires in the present.
Set against a history of conflict and promise, the story traces the costs and rewards of standing up to inherited prejudice. Through diverse voices—white and Black, old and young—it explores how a community can confront its deepest wounds while seeking a more hopeful future.
Readers will encounter scenes of everyday life in a small Southern city, the weight of memory, and the moment when personal choices push a town toward change. The book invites reflection on ancestry, responsibility, and the courage it takes to redefine a community’s future.
- Interwoven perspectives from Black and white residents illuminate different experiences of the same town.
- Explores how history shapes present-day attitudes and the path toward reconciliation.
- Focus on moral choices, civic leadership, and the costs of collective courage.
- Vivid setting in a Southern town with a deep sense of place and community life.
Ideal for readers who enjoy character-driven historical fiction, social drama, and stories about communities facing hard truths to build a better tomorrow.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book is set against the backdrop of civil rights tensions in the American South during the early 1900s. The author uses the experiences of a young, well-educated man from the North to show the extent of racial prejudice and violence in the South, with a particular focus on the ways in which Black people were disenfranchised. The book's main subject is the racial divide in America, portrayed through a series of events that highlight the social and political divisions of the time. The author explores the impact of racism on both Black and white communities, ultimately revealing the need for reconciliation and understanding. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Codice articolo 9781331556756_0
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