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By Karen McWhorter

ISBN-10: 149100889X

ISBN-13: 9781491008898

California woman, Lily, is actually out of her point within the outdated South. After escaping an abusive marriage, she comes to a decision to remodel her previous, rural schoolhouse into an academy for the humanities, regardless of protests from the neighborhood townsfolk. With 4 little ones to elevate on her personal and nosy buddies at a loss for words through her wish to deliver ‘culture’ to their tiny village in Virginia, Lily persuades her girlfriends to affix her reason. yet Rae, an excellent artist who's additionally from California, and Sylvie, a skilled manhattan dancer who can’t stand nonetheless, are both misplaced within the South. particularly Sylvie, who occurs to be black, and now unearths herself in a segregated backwoods that doesn’t include civil rights, or perhaps appear to notice that it’s 1978 for that matter.

Despite their expertise and backbone, the women face stumbling blocks on all fronts. From Mason, an selfish previous boy who has urban officers in his pocket, to Mrs. Pepper, a jaded previous girl who has made it her venture to make sure the village by no means evolves, every body has whatever to assert approximately Lily’s audacious plan. yet no risk is larger than Berto, a violent drug broker Sylvie’s brother befriended. whilst she narrowly escapes from him in long island, he comes looking for vengeance and the ladies needs to grapple with simply how a ways they are going to visit guard their lives. Will they open the minds and hearts in their friends, and retailer themselves within the process?

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