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Almost everything important in 12-year-old Gabriella's life that warmer summer months of 1957 can be followed to the river. Without friends, her mom mysteriously absent, and her daddy, the general, dealing with her as though she doesn't are present, Gabriella changes to the river beside the Marine basic where she lives in North Carolina. She's identified to learn to swim so she can make the overall proud by displaying him she's proficient at something. At the river Gabriella satisfies Hawkins, an African-American steward in your kitchen of her father's quarters. Gabriella chooses to trust Hawkins to show her a few swim techniques. He becomes her swim trainer and a person she can talk with, even about the tragedy of the children Emmett Till. 2 yrs before, the fourteen-year-old Emmett was lynched and his body thrown into Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Despite brutal beatings, Emmett refused to say what his racist murderers wanted: that he wasn't as good as them. At the river beach in North Carolina, Gabriella becomes good friends with Doyle, a teenager and neighbor who performs Mississippi Delta Blues on her behalf on his electric guitar. She tangles with another neighbor, Col. Perkins, a lurking presence with more than only a casual involvement in Gabriella's growing camaraderie with Hawkins. And she feels a tide in her heart and soul pulling her over the river to an old mansion, a tide as strong as a mother's love, even a deeply troubled mom who does not need to be found.If she can reach Mama, if she can show the overall she's proficient at something, Gabriella will have the thing she's ever wanted: her family alongside one another again. At the river Hawkins helps her find her power. Emmett helps her find her heart and soul. Yet as she swims toward young adulthood, it might all be lost. Emmett have been murdered for whistling at a white woman. Could her camaraderie with Hawkins endanger the hard Marine? It doesn't appear possible. Until an abrupt storm on the river changes Gabriella's life - forever.
