“A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.”―BooklistIn 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a hi...

A coming of age story about a boy growing up in Jamaica with his grandmother and extended family members. The child observes, and reports of what he witnesses, taking the reader through a day, a week, and a brief life in a rural Jamaican community where some Jews live outwardly as Christians.