For Lamb
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator Rebecca Lee, Dion Graham, Kevin R. Free, Tyla Collier, Angel Pean, Jaime Lincoln Smith
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Summary
Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb’s mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's a lesbian. Lamb’s brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north—if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naïve. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother—and ends in a lynching. Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young-adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy.
Duration: about 8 hours (08:02:33) Publishing date: 2023-01-31; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —