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It's summer in Atlanta and black children are disappearing. By enough time the heinous killing spree has ended, 29 will be dead. This haunting menace provides the backdrop to the exquisitely evocative stories of three children fighting the everyday battles of adolescence; Tasha, who's dealing with her parents' separation and the sweet pain of a first crush over a tender boy; Rodney, who struggles to socialize and wants only to please his abusive father; and Octavia, who faces down the popular crowd at school and must straddle the line between protected and protective daughter. Ultimately, these individual stories reveal the increased loss of innocence that accompanies the passage from childhood to adulthood. Predicated on the true-life Atlanta child murders, in which 29 black children were murdered over the course of two years, the terror behind the storyline is vivid and powerful. The writer herself lived through this era and suffered the trauma of having two of her fifth-grade classmates abducted and murdered.
