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The year the Colored Sisters came to town, Jacqueline Guidry

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The year the Colored Sisters came to town, Jacqueline Guidry
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The year the Colored Sisters came to town
Medium
electronic resource
Responsibility statement
Jacqueline Guidry
Summary
Jacqueline Guidry's debut novel set in 1950s Louisiana was selected for the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program and has been favorably compared to To Kill a Mockingbird. Ten-year-old Vivien Leigh wants more than anything to understand the adult world. But when two black nuns come to teach at her all-white Catholic elementary school, everything begins to change. She and her sister are suddenly exposed to the harsh realities of racial segregation
Target audience
adult
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