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Little Sacrifices

Little Sacrifices

Author(s): Jamie Scott

Location(s): Savannah

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Late 1940s,

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When Duncan and Sarah Powell move with their daughter, May, to Savannah Georgia in 1947, they hope against hope that they’ll be welcomed. But they’re Yankees and worse, they’re civil rights advocates almost a decade too early.

At first May can pretend they’re the same as everyone else. It means keeping quiet when she knows she should speak up, but it’s worth the sacrifice to win friends. Unfortunately her parents are soon putting their beliefs into action. And when they wake to find that they’re the only family on the block with a Ku Klux Klan cross blazing on their front lawn, the time comes for them to finally decide between what’s easy and what’s right.

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The South really comes to life in this book, the manners and of course an element of politics and race, redolent of the time. A good read. – Sasha Powell –

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