When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years--of an absent dad; of her fascination with a neighborhood "bad boy"--and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play.
The tide was turning - though local governments disagreed, it would soon be illegal to segregate black Americans from white Americans on public buses, in waiting rooms or in restaurants. And yet - in the early 1960s, many states across the south of America kept discriminating against African-Americans...
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