A powerful story.
Linda Jackson\'s moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States..
When Till\'s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement.
Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
For now, she\'s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man\'s cotton plantation. -- Kirkus Reviews It\'s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can\'t wait to move north.
A powerful story