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It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother's artist friend, Perry, are in the South to "agitate" and to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it all to grey. As racial injustices ensue--sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists--Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.
About the Author
Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books including In My Mother's House, Sources of Light and the anthology Every Father's Daughter, winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award for Best Anthology and a Parade Magazine "Sizzling Summer Read." Her memoir, Where The Angels Lived is the 2020 winner of the MIAL Nonfiction Award and shortlisted for the 2019 Sarton Women's Book Award.Margaret's work has appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, Glamour, The Millions, Southern Accents, The Morning Consult, TriQuarterly, National Geographic for Kids, and The Sun among others. A recipient of a 2010 NEA Fellowship in literature and a 2010 Fulbright to teach in Hungary, Margaret is the National Author Winner of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. Visit her website at: www.margaretmcmullan.com
