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The serious coming-of-age history of a young guy growing up in rural Virginia, and the ancient summer that would change his life permanently. During the warmer summer months of 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward Region is entirely consumed by passionate level of resistance against, and in other sides, support for, the desegregation of colleges as mandated by Brown v. Plank of Education. Benjamin Rome, the 10-year-old kid of a fowl farmer in another of the county's small townships, battles to grasp the furor that surrounds him, even while he comprehends the immorality of racial prejudice. Within his own family, views are sharply divided, and it is against this billed backdrop that Ben spends the summer working with his good friend Burghardt, a black farmhand, under the predatory gaze of Ben's grandfather. As the elders of Prince Edward focus on closing the colleges, life ambles on, and Ben grows closer to his pregnant sister, Lainie, and his troubled older brother, Al, while also coming to recognize the agonizing and inherent limitations of his companionship with Burghardt. Evocative and written with lush historical information, Prince Edward is a refreshing bildungsroman by bestselling publisher Dennis McFarland, and a dazzling portrait of the interpersonal upheaval in the American South on the eve of the civil protection under the law movement.
