Found in Pieces - Adams, George Rollie

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Résumé :
A heart-rending story of two mothers-one white, one black-struggling for truth and justice in the Civil Rights-era South In 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family's financial future to buy a small, defunct Southern weekly. Before she can get the paper up and running, her husband loses his job, a smoldering desegregation crisis flames up in the state capital, and Elton Washington-a young black man whose mother, Sadie Rose, is also a businesswoman-disappears. The mystery of Elton's whereabouts brings Pearl and Sadie Rose together in a gut-wrenching search for truth and justice and leaves Pearl facing editorial and business decisions that could lead to more money woes and even physical harm to herself and those around her. Which way will she turn when commitment to honesty, integrity, and equal rights runs headlong into responsibility and duty to family? Both women's lives are complicated further when townspeople learn what happened with Elton. Meanwhile, the head of the local White Citizens' Council stirs racial hatred, and another prominent white man hides a dark secret that Sadie Rose knows but will not tell. The town's former marshal-a white septuagenarian everyone calls Mr. Claude-and a black businessman-Leon Jackson-play important roles in the shocking events, including murder, that follow. But Pearl is key to the answers they seek. Find out why.

Biographie:
George Rollie Adams grew up among storytellers in southern Arkansas, taught public school there, and attended graduate school in Louisiana and Arizona. He produced two books with colleagues while living in Tennessee and crisscrossing the country researching historic sites for the National Park Service and wrote a third while serving as a history museum director in Louisiana and New York.Choice called his biography of General William S. Harney an excellent book, expertly documented, and nicely written. The reviewer for the Journal of American History termed it a vivid portrayal. And the reviewer for the Denver Westerners said it reads like a novel.Adams subsequently led the development of the Strong National Museum of Play into the world's first collections-based museum devoted solely to the critical role of play in learning and human development. There he established and served as editor in chief of the American Journal of Play and received recognition in college textbooks for innovative leadership in museum management and marketing.He now lives and writes among the natural beauty and bountiful farmland of New York's Finger Lakes region. His novels South of Little Rock and Found in Pieces have each received multiple awards for historical, regional, and social issues fiction. Because he comes from a family of quilters, their craft figures prominently in his writing. He and his wife have three adopted children, each from a different part of the world. See his website and read posts to his blog, It Happened Like This and Other Stuff, at https://GeorgeRollieAdamsBooks.com/

Sommaire:
A heart-rending story of two mothers-one white, one black-struggling for truth and justice in the Civil Rights-era South In 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family's financial future to buy a small, defunct Southern weekly. Before she can get the paper up and running, her husband loses his job, a smoldering desegregation crisis flames up in the state capital, and Elton Washington-a young black man whose mother, Sadie Rose, is also a businesswoman-disappears. The mystery of Elton's whereabouts brings Pearl and Sadie Rose together in a gut-wrenching search for truth and justice and leaves Pearl facing editorial and business decisions that could lead to more money woes and even physical harm to herself and those around her. Which way will she turn when commitment to honesty, integrity, and equal rights runs headlong into responsibility and duty to family? Both women's lives are complicated further when townspeople learn what happened with Elton. Meanwhile, the head of the local White Citizens' Council stirs racial hatred, and another prominent white man hides a dark secret that Sadie Rose knows but will not tell. The town's former marshal-a white septuagenarian everyone calls Mr. Claude-and a black businessman-Leon Jackson-play important roles in the shocking events, including murder, that follow. But Pearl is key to the answers they seek. Find out why....