Meridian
Married at seventeen and a mother before she is grown, Meridian Hill gives up the child, goes to college and joins the voter drives, then stays on in the small Southern towns after the cameras and the organisers have gone. Her former lover Truman and his white wife Lynne circle back to her across the next decade. Walker's second book is the sharpest fictional reckoning with what the civil rights years cost those who gave them everything.
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