For Lamb

ISBN: 9780823450152
Physical Description: 297 pages ; 21 cm regular print print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Copyright: &copy;2023

Summary: An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. 1940s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is 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 naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching.