By Anne Moose
It's 1955, and Catherine has joined her father in Arkansas after her grandfather's loss of life. She's a California collage scholar, and it is her first stopover at to her grandparents' farm because the summer season she used to be 9. whilst she is reunited with Jimmy, whom she'd performed with as a toddler, the 2 are instantly attracted to each other. They comprehend the risks in their interracial appeal, yet might by no means have imagined the far-reaching outcomes in their premature love.
Arkansas summer season takes readers on an emotional trip of ardour and suspense, the entire whereas shining a focus at the twisted ethos and violence of the segregated South.
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