Ella's world is changed when KatherineSt. James, a mysterious white experimenter from Princeton, arrives in their racially divided Mississippi city. The community is incontinently suspicious- what does Katherine want, and why is she really there? As pressures mount and rumors swirl, and the drift swings against her, Ella and KatherineSt. James are drawn into a complicated fellowship that drowns out the outside world. until it doesn't, and the relationship grows decreasingly fraught as Ella unwittingly pushes against KatherineSt. James's precisely constructed boundaries that guard a complicated history, with secrets that could have ruinous consequences. recited by both Ella and KatherineSt. James, this moving incoming of age story, replete with heartbreak and love, atrocity, madness and horselaugh, is an exquisite and explosive incoming of age tale that will keep you spell- bound until the veritably last runner.

About the author

Nyani Nkrumah was born in Boston and raised in Ghana and Zimbabwe. She developed her love of reading and jotting from her mama , who tutored English Literature and Language and encouraged her children to recite runes and Shakespeare soliloquies. After graduating from Amherst College with a binary major in Biology and Black Studies, Nkrumah entered her master’s at the University of Michigan, and aPh.D. from Cornell University. She has lived in the Washington, DC, region for the once twenty times.

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