"It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it know he's not welcome. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-- open, kind, and accepting"--Back cover.
