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"It's the end of summer in Atlanta, and fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back-to-back school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear. Set during the two-year nightmare in which Atlanta's Black chidren vanishing and twenty-nine would be found murdered by 1982, LEAVING ATLANTA portrays one of the darkest tragedies in American history through the eyes of three unforgettable children. Here are all the hurts and little wins, the all-too-sudden changes, and the merciless outside forces that can sweep the young into adulthood and forever shape their lives." -- Back cover.
About the author
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, Leaving Atlanta, and An American Marriage, which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award, as well as appearing on Barack Obama's summer reading list and year-end roundup. She holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
Summary
The beautifully repackaged reissue of the debut novel by Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, which was an Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection
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The beautifully repackaged reissue of the debut novel by Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, which was an Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection
