Fiction. Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Gold Award for Fiction: Self-Published; Small Press. Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for General Fiction. Winner of a Silver Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award) for Multicultural Fiction. Winner of a First Horizon Award for best debut books. Winner of a Moonbeam Children's Book Award Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction- Historical/Cultural. When Titus Horace; successful African American author; inherits a large tract of land; he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa; and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends; Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how; despite their education and talent; each day becomes an effort to survive brutal hostility. Asa discovers she and her father; a professor at the college for black students; cannot enter the town's public library. As Asa struggles to adapt to her new life; she falls in love with a musical savant who lives in a cabin on Horace land; and joins members of a small diverse community to defy the oppression of legal segregation through profound acts of resistance.