If you aren\'t already \'woke, \' you will be after reading this book.
Together, they help Evan find perspective and peace..
Only the love of his great grandmother, Mama Jennie, and his mentor, Bojack, keeps him on track.
Caught in a crossfire of hate from whites and his own people, who question whether he is black enough, Evan is often alone and bewildered.
Among the smartest in his class, Evan becomes a target of white kids threatened by the forced integration of their schools.
He is resented by friends and family for desiring a life better than theirs.
Inspired to overcome the racism and class status imposed on blacks, he dreams of a life bigger than that lived by most everyone he knows in the small Virginia town of Canaan.
He tells of being a black child growing up in the racially charged 1960s.
Seeing his torment, his wife, Izzy, prods him to explain. --Mary Batten , author of Aliens from Earth Evan Walls IS TERRIFIED by the birth of his first child because he doesn\'t want her to suffer the isolation he had as a child.
If you aren\'t already \'woke, \' you will be after reading this book
