One crazy summer
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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3 primary books#1 in Gaither Sisters
Gaither Sisters is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Rita Williams-Garcia.
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These sisters go on a summer adventure and discover a whole new way to look at the world. And I did too. This is a good book, but even more it is an important book. This gave me a new way to look at the world. And we aren't told which way is right and which way is wrong. It reinforced to me that this is complicated.
A crazy summer
Delphine and her two younger sisters are off to California to spend a month with their mother. Their mother who they haven't seen in seven years. Their mother is a poet who has renamed herself and she is active with the Black Panthers. It's the sixties and it's a crazy time with a crazy mother the girls really don't know...will they connect?
I love the sixties, and I loved this story about a black family in the sixties during the Black Power movement. It's a wonderfully new point of view for me. It was a delightful story with dynamic and fascinating characters.
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