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When a black field hands disappears, a wealthy white young man he has befriended units out to find him. But Pete McLean discovers more than he bargained for - including unexpected love and difficult truths about competition and category in 1960s Alabama. There was another South in the 1960s, one far taken off the marches and bombings and turmoil in the roads that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a location of interior turmoil, where typical people struggled to right themselves on a social panorama that was drastically moving beneath their legs. This is the world of Valerie Fraser Luesse's stunning debut, Missing Isaac. It really is 1965 when black field hands Isaac Reynolds goes missing from the tiny, unassuming town of Glory, Alabama. The townspeople's reactions range between concern to indifference, but one young man will minimize at nothing to find out what took place to his improbable friend. White, wealthy, and fatherless, young Pete McLean has nothing at all to get and everything to lose in his relentless search for Isaac. Along the way, he will discover a lot more than he bargained for. Before it's all over, Pete - and the individuals he loves most - will have to blur the hard lines of competition, class, and faith. And what they discover about themselves may change some of them forever.
