Bibliograph

For Lamb, Lesa Cline-Ransome

Type

Label

For Lamb, Lesa Cline-Ransome

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

For Lamb

Oclc number

1351693120

Responsibility statement

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Summary

"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching."--, Publisher's website

Target audience

adolescent

Classification