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This award-winning novel (International Reading Association, American Library Association, many others) is about 14-year-old Maggie Pugh's coming of age in the Jim Crow South. Life for Maggie Pugh has never been blissful. Her father is withdrawn, and her mother cares only about helping Maggie's little sister, Gardenia, win a beauty pageant. Yet events in the summer of 1960 in Kinship, Georgia, add... More

This award-winning novel (International Reading Association, American Library Association, many others) is about 14-year-old Maggie Pugh's coming of age in the Jim Crow South. Life for Maggie Pugh has never been blissful. Her father is withdrawn, and her mother cares only about helping Maggie's little sister, Gardenia, win a beauty pageant. Yet events in the summer of 1960 in Kinship, Georgia, add to Maggie's troubles. Her friend Zeke, a black man who has listened to Maggie's concerns and even given her a camera, is arrested after he uses a restroom designated for white people. Maggie manages to overcome the ignorance and cruelty surrounding her, and she uses the camera Zeke gave her to understand and communicate the white community's abuse of the blacks to the world.
"The courage and vision of the 1960s South...are posted on Spite Fences for all to see. It is a masterful, sobering display." Booklist
"A book of this caliber comes along only rarely." Family Life
"Characters emerge as complex individuals, not pawns of a political agenda; Maggie�s final triumph is a tribute to all who have suffered for justice." Publishers Weekly
Through Krisher�s stunning narrative and achingly real characters, Maggie�s pain and redemption are brought to vivid life." Kirkus Reviews
For information about the author: www.trudykrisherauthor.com

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