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Dafina
October 2007
On Sale: October 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0758220529
EAN: 9780758220523
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this compelling memoir, Kim Reid hauntingly transports
readers to the innocent world of a childhood protected by a
loving home, yet threatened by a danger beyond any child's
understanding... Thirteen-year-old Kim Reid will never forget the summer of
1979. In those precious free moments when she is not taking
care of her little sister while her single mother works as a
cop, Kim's days are filled with thoughts of boys, makeup,
and starting high school in the fall. When a heartbreaking
discovery along a quiet Atlanta road makes the news, Kim's
mother instructs her girls to be careful. Accustomed to her
mother's warnings, Kim feels she already knows how to stay
alert and carry herself as if she's not scared. But as the shadow of danger lengthens over Kim's once-sunny
landscape of friends and family, she learns there is no
place safe. While her mother becomes preoccupied with her
increasingly high-profile job, Kim feels life unraveling.
Straddling the worlds of her black neighborhood and her
wealthy white school, teetering on the brink between girl
and woman, Kim is torn between fitting in and finding her
own voice; between becoming strong and clinging to the last
traces of her childhood. In this deeply intimate, powerful narrative, Kim Reid weaves
an unforgettable story of growing up and the events that
shape us forever...
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