For Lamb.
For Lamb.
By
:
Cline-Ransome, Lesa.
Publication Date
:
2023
Subject Term
:
Teenage girls -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Summary
:
An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780823450152
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