Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones youIt was the end of summer, a summer during the two year nightmare in which Atlanta's African American children were vanishing and twenty nine would be found murdered by 1982. Here fifth grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back to school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear. The moving story of their struggle to grow up and survive shimmers
Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation
Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula
Stuck in traffic
Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again
cancer-ridden mother
and the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall
Since they parted in college
yet with a universality that embraces all children and their parents
And then there is Nathan
Arthur Parnassus lives a good life
they find more than they bargained for―Marco's already dead
Her choices ripple through generations