STOCKDALE

ISBN: 0595372449

Author: Priscilla Lalisse-Jespersen

Condition: New

In the small southern town of Stockdale, Alabama, where blacks live on one side of the tracks and whites on the other, Cassie Taylor wants nothing morethan to get out.Taught early that she's not free to love whomever she pleases in Stockdale due tothe color of her skin, Cassie embarks on a journey that takes her into and out ofthe arms of bad-boy Blake, and then across the world to South Korea, to the good guy she's certain will save her. But is Blake really out of her life for good?In this tale of self-discovery, adventure, forbidden love and courage, find out what happens in a place where being black or white can mean absolutelynothing or everything." This is the memoir of a girl labeled as "black," who sees the world inTechnicolor and fights for self-definition in a microcosm that revolves around flesh tones."