For Lamb |
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| Author:
| Cline-Ransome, Lesa |
| Read by:
| Lee, Rebecca
Graham, Dion
Pean, Angel
Collier, Tyla
Free, Kevin R.
Smith, Jaime Lincoln |
| ISBN: | 979-8-8746-1189-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2023 |
| Publisher: | Dreamscape Media, LLC
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| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | USD $41.99 |
Book Description:
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Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's 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 naïve. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a...
More DescriptionLamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's 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 naïve. 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. Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young-adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy.