Pieces Of Why
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: gospel singers, choirs, neuroses, father-daughter relationship, mother-daughter relationship [X], new orleans (la.) [X], traumatic neuroses, choirs (music), realistic fiction, children's choirs, children of prisoners, fathers and daughters [X], mothers and daughters