Your Blues ain't Like Mine
Chicago-borm armstrong todd is fifteen, black, and unaccustomed to be segregated ways of the deep south when his mother sends him to send the summer with relatives in her native rural mississipi. For speaking a few innocuous words in french to a white woman, armstronf pays the ultimate price. In the aftermath of the terrible crime, this precariously balanced world and its determined people-white and black-are changed, then and forever, by the horror of poverty, the legacy of justice, and the singular gift of love's power to heal
