Kira Franklin, a black newspaper reporter in Southwest Virginia in 1993, begins to question her own culture when she pursues a story on a local Cherokee community raising money to reclaim ancestral lands. The Harper family is part of a long line of Cherokee tribe leaders, and their knowledge and devotion to retaining their history make Kira long for a sense of place, a sense of self. But the history she knows about her own family - that her father fought and died in Vietnam - gets turned on its head when her mother announces that her father is not only alive and has come back to see her, but that he is white.
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- Author:
- Melanie S. Hatter
- ISBN 10:
- 0931846986
- Pages:
- 206
- Publisher:
- Washington Writers' Publishing House
- Publication Date:
- November 15, 2011
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Weight:
- 0.61lbs