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Set in the summer of 1980 at the height of the kidnapping and murders of black children in Atlanta, this highly charged, poetic novel tells the story of nine characters caught up in a public tragedy as well as in their own more private losses. The mysterious murders intensify the sense of isolation of the characters - black and white, children and adults - whose interwoven first-person narratives make up the novel. As the narrative voices grapple with the ghosts of the missing and murdered children and with their own inner demons, they try to impose some sense of order on the tragedies that touch their lives. The novel opens just after three teenage girls, swimming in the Chattahoochee River, discover the body of a black child. Each in soliloquy ponders this event along with her personal sorrows: Augusta (Gus) mourns the death of her first love, Billy Marsh, struck by lightning the year before; Noreen immerses herself in prayer and religious ritual to ease the pain of her father's desertion; and Robbie Lynn tries to comfort her six-year-old brother, Sam, as she grieves over the loss of their parents in a car wreck on the highway from Jonesboro. The first-person narration is a means

Author

Wieland, Liza

Publisher

Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870743375

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14