Marc Curtis Little
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A streetwise African American teenager hastily departs bigoted Anderson, South Carolina in the 1940s. During her travels over a span of nearly eighty years, she assumes the identity of her alter ego while living a good life as a nationally respected media mogul. But it is marked with deep-rooted secrets: One involving the murder of a White man and the other dealing with the disappearance of a prominent Black man, both from her past life in the Deep...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Carrie Lacey's happy upbringing is seemingly immune from the pressures of growing up Black in rural South Carolina during the Great Depression. But life changes when her mother and six siblings are forced from their Anderson home, leaving Carrie and her father Hallie. While working for White businessman Tommy Joe Butler--a bootleg liquor dealer--Carrie becomes aware of the depth of her father's campaign to change the lives of African Americans. He...