Swimming Between Worlds

Swimming Between Worlds
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780425282731
ISBN-13 : 0425282732
Rating : 4/5 (732 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Swimming Between Worlds by : Elaine Neil Orr

Download or read book Swimming Between Worlds written by Elaine Neil Orr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement... Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school football hero, but returns in disgrace after being fired from a prestigious architectural assignment in West Africa. Yet the culture and people he grew to admire have left their mark on him. Adrift, he manages his father's grocery store and becomes reacquainted with a girl he barely knew growing up. Kate Monroe's parents have died, leaving her the family home and the right connections in her Southern town. But a trove of disturbing letters sends her searching for the truth behind the comfortable life she's been bequeathed. On the same morning but at different moments, Tacker and Kate encounter a young African-American, Gaines Townson, and their stories converge with his. As Winston-Salem is pulled into the tumultuous 1960s, these three Americans find themselves at the center of the civil rights struggle, coming to terms with the legacies of their pasts as they search for an ennobling future.


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