内容简介
Weavingtogetherthelivesofblacksandwhites,racistsandcivilrightsadvocates,andtheeventsofpeacefulprotestandviolentrepression,SenaJeterNaslundcreatesatapestryofAmericansocialtransformationatonceintimateandepic.InBirmingham,Alabama,twenty-year-oldStellaSilver,anidealisticwhitecollegestudent,issentreelingoffhermeasuredpathbyeventsof1963.Combiningpoliticalactivismwithsingleparentingandnight-schoolteaching,AfricanAmericanChristineTaylordiscoversshemusthealherownbruisedhearttoactualizemeaningfulsocialchange.Inspiredbythecourageandcommitmentofthecivilrightsmovement,thechildEdmundPowersembodieshopeforfuturechange.Inthisnovelofmaturationandgrowth,Naslundmakesvitaltheintersectionofspiritual,political,andmoralforcesthathaveredefinedAmerica.