"It's 1982, in a rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi. Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James, at times loving and funny and other times tense and cautious, becomes more fraught and complex as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James's carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences."--Provided by the publisher.
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ISBN:9780063226616
Physical Description:310 pages ; 24 cm regular print print
Publisher:New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
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