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How High The Moon
Karyn Parsons
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Description for How High The Moon
Paperback.
_____ Boston was nothing like South Carolina. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. Folks didn't wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes. Fancy was just life. Mama was a city girl . . . and now I was going to be one too. It's 1944, and in a small, Southern, segregated town, eleven-year-old Ella spends her summers running wild with her cousins and friends. But life isn't always so sunny. The deep racial tension that simmers beneath their town's peaceful ... Read more
_____ Boston was nothing like South Carolina. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. Folks didn't wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes. Fancy was just life. Mama was a city girl . . . and now I was going to be one too. It's 1944, and in a small, Southern, segregated town, eleven-year-old Ella spends her summers running wild with her cousins and friends. But life isn't always so sunny. The deep racial tension that simmers beneath their town's peaceful ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241346891
SKU
9780241346891
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Karyn Parsons
Karyn Parsons is perhaps best known for her role as Will Smith's ditsy cousin Hilary Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Karyn has gone on to found Sweet Blackberry, an award-winning foundation which shares stories about unsung black heroes in history, and How High The Moon is Karyn's self-authored debut novel. She lives and works in New York.
Reviews for How High The Moon
A stirring, emotionally resonant debut, How High the Moon opens a fresh and sensitive window on a terrifying time, even as it introduces us to a lovable new heroine
Tony Abbott, author of Firegirl and The Great Jeff
A tender and compelling story about loving and belonging. Parsons masterfully takes us on a journey where the political is ... Read more
Tony Abbott, author of Firegirl and The Great Jeff
A tender and compelling story about loving and belonging. Parsons masterfully takes us on a journey where the political is ... Read more