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The Ada Decades by Martinac, Paula is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Ada Decades about?

A girl from a Carolina mill family isn't supposed to strive for a career, but Ada Shook graduates from college on a scholarship and lands a plum job as a school librarian. As the 1950s South rocks with turbulence, Ada finds herself caught in the ugly fight to integrate the Charlotte, NC public schools. At the same time, she makes friends with Cam Lively, a teacher who challenges her to reexamine her narrow upbringing. The two young women fall in love and throw in their lot together, despite their underlying fear of being found out and fired. Over seven decades, Ada is witness to the racism laced through her Southern city, the paradox of religion as both comfort and torment, and the survival networks created by gay people. Eleven interconnected stories cover the sweep of one woman's personal history as she reaches her own form of Southern womanhood compassionate, resilient, principled, and lesbian. Paula Martinac is the author of four published novels and a collection of short stories. Her debut novel Out of Time won the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction. She has published three nonfiction books on lesbian and gay culture and politics as well as numerous articles, essays, and

Who reads The Ada Decades?

Author

Martinac, Paula

Publisher

Bywater Books : Made available through hoopla

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612940854

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.56 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13