This is an amazing story of friendship
and the power of that one friendship to change a town torn apart by fear and
hate. It begins when a young boy just
wants to play basketball. He makes a
friend not “seeing” the color of his skin simply because that’s not what
matters. Throughout this book the reader
is taken on one side of town and then on the other to see how each boy
lives. The reader is drawn into their
family, school, social circles and into the very hearts and minds of these boys
as they become young men. When the
final chapters unfold they are fueled with the tension of the 1960s in the
South. Your heart will be pulled in one
direction and then another and at times feeling the frustration and pathos of
the times as if you were sitting there with the spectators in that gymnasium
for the championship ball game.
I received this book free from the
publishers and was not required to write a positive review.
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