How It Happens

Written for young adult readers, How It Happens carries the heart through the obstacles that still face women of color today and persists in holding open the door of communication between generations.

About the author

A 2017 Kresge artist fellow and a former attorney, Jean Alicia Elster is a professional writer of fiction for children and young adults. She is the great-granddaughter of Addie Jackson, whose family story is the basis of How It Happens. Elster is the author of the Michigan Notable Books Who's Jim Hines? (Wayne State University Press, 2008) and The Colored Car (Wayne State University Press, 2013).

Summary

Follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Through three successive generations of African-American women, Elster intertwines the fictionalized adaptations of the defining periods and challenges-race relations, miscegenation, sexual assault, and class divisions-in her family's history.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Alicia Elster
• Assisted by: Chelsea Hunter (Editor)
• Publisher: WAYNE
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780814348697
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-4869-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Great Lakes Books; Great Lakes Books Series
• Subject: Children's and young people's books