The Summer We Got Saved

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Out of the Night That Covers Me and My Last Days as Roy Rogers comes a novel that interweaves the lives of three people amid the changing South of the 1960s.
The Summer We Got Saved
Tab is fast growing into an opinionated, intransigent teenager, appalled by the attitudes of her liberal Berkeley-based aunt— until that aunt whisks Tab and her sister Tina to a place in Tennessee where integration flourishes. Tab's childhood friend Maudie couldn't care less about what happens to the struggles of her black brothers and sisters, as long as she gets to leave the Tuskegee Polio Clinic until she lands in the backwoods of Alabama and starts a voting school for members of the Word of Truth Missionary Baptist Church.
None of them set out to be involved in the winds of change engulfing the country this summer. If they're lucky, they won't be. Or maybe, if they're really lucky, they will.
"Affecting .a remarkable read .her characters ring true... Tovább

Fülszöveg

From the author of the critically acclaimed Out of the Night That Covers Me and My Last Days as Roy Rogers comes a novel that interweaves the lives of three people amid the changing South of the 1960s.
The Summer We Got Saved
Tab is fast growing into an opinionated, intransigent teenager, appalled by the attitudes of her liberal Berkeley-based aunt— until that aunt whisks Tab and her sister Tina to a place in Tennessee where integration flourishes. Tab's childhood friend Maudie couldn't care less about what happens to the struggles of her black brothers and sisters, as long as she gets to leave the Tuskegee Polio Clinic until she lands in the backwoods of Alabama and starts a voting school for members of the Word of Truth Missionary Baptist Church.
None of them set out to be involved in the winds of change engulfing the country this summer. If they're lucky, they won't be. Or maybe, if they're really lucky, they will.
"Affecting .a remarkable read .her characters ring true as their worlds collide and their lives intersect, leaving them all changed forever." —Lalita Tademy, New York Times bestselling author of Cane River
"Nicely woven: Devoto captures the internal ambivalence of a society teetering on the uneasy verge of change."
—Kirkus Reviews "Superb the work of a gifted storyteller." —Robert Inman, author of Captain Saturday
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