Sources of Light - Softcover

Mcmullan, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547722362 ISBN 13: 9780547722368

Publisher: Young Readers Paperback, 2012

Synopsis

It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in.
    People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother's artist friend, Perry, are in the South to "agitate" and to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it all to grey. As racial injustices ensue--sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists--Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret McMullan is the acclaimed author of When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong, as well as the adult novels In My Mother’s House and When Warhol Was Still Alive. Her work has appeared in such publications as Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is a professor and the chair of the English department at the University of Evansville in Indiana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Young Readers Paperback
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547722362
• ISBN 13: 9780547722368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242