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When a black field hand disappears, a wealthy white boy he has befriended sets out to find him. But Pete McLean discovers more than he bargained for?including unexpected love and difficult truths about race and class in 1960s Alabama.
Revell
January 2018
On Sale: January 2, 2018
Featuring: Pete McLean; Isaac Reynolds; Dovey
352 pages
ISBN: 0800728785
EAN: 9780800728786
Kindle: B0741FGTWK
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Inspirational Historical | Multicultural Inspirational
There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where ordinary people struggled to right themselves on a social landscape that was dramatically shifting beneath their feet. This is the world of Valerie Fraser Luesse’s stunning debut, Missing Isaac. It is 1965 when black field hand Isaac Reynolds goes missing from the tiny, unassuming town of Glory, Alabama. The townspeople’s reactions range from concern to indifference, but one boy will stop at nothing to find out what happened to his unlikely friend. White, wealthy, and fatherless, young Pete McLean has nothing to gain and everything to lose in his relentless search for Isaac. In the process, he will discover much more than he bargained for. Before it’s all over, Pete—and the people he loves most—will have to blur the hard lines of race, class, and religion. And what they discover about themselves may change some of them forever.
AwardsFresh Fiction Box Not To Miss, Selection, February 2018
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