Home and Away -- Rochelle Alers, Paperback Religion - Youth Issues Silent and wide-eyed

Silent and wide-eyed

particularly on civil rights

amidst the grandeur of Victorian opulence

" - Amanda Foreman

From Gnorri

Home and Away -- Rochelle Alers, Paperback Religion - Youth Issues Silent and wide-eyedSpanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great granddaughter of a former player sets out to tell her family's story and redefine her own. Harper Fleming is done with being passed over. As a journalist for a Chicago newspaper, she's been refused a shot at the sportswriter position she longs for. And her on again