Swimming Between Worlds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780425282731)

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.

Author: Elaine Neil Orr
ISBN-10: 0425282732
ISBN-13: 9780425282731
Publisher: Berkley Books
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2018
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2018 pg. 19