Description
For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s in Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb’s mother is a hardworking, creative seamstress who cannot reveal that 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 off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, her charming hustler uncle, her estranged father, and her brother, and ends in a lynching.
Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy.
An interracial friendship between two teenage girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.
Endorsements
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection