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Can I read These Walls Between Us on EtoBox?
These Walls Between Us by Wendy Sanford is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is These Walls Between Us about?
"This tender and evocative story about friendship across racial and class lines is told with unflagging honesty and is an important guide for living in this time of racial reckoning." —Catherine Whitmire, author of Practicing Peace: A Devotional Walk through the Quaker Tradition and Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named Mary White traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic worker for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Mary was fifteen, Wendy was twelve. As the Black "help" and the privileged white daughter, they were not slated for friendship—but Wendy's parents kept bringing Mary back each summer and when Wendy and Mary, now adults, found themselves both divorced, single mothers, they began to walk the beach together at nightfall. They shared their challenges with the drinking in Wendy's family—Wendy as a daughter of alcoholics,...
Who reads These Walls Between Us?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Wendy Sanford
- Publisher
- She Writes Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
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