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From a National Jewish Book Award finalist A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentiethcentury American South
Nineyearolds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who cant imagine a world where they arent together Unfortunately no onenot their families nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906wants to see a White middleclass Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper Its only a matter of time before fate will separate the two And that day comes on the eve of Rubys womanhood when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta
Max moves to Atlanta a few years later still longing for the girl he has never forgotten He is soon taken under the wing of Harold Ross star reporter for the Atlanta Journal But when Max is assigned to a controversial murder case that pits the Black and Jewish communities against each other hes unexpectedly reunited with Ruby The bond between them is still strong but with the trial igniting racial tension throughout Atlanta and across the nation do Max and Ruby dare dream of a future together
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