Eleven-year-old Charlie York's idyllic life in Sunnyside, Virginia, is shattered in 1967 when his father is killed by a shotgun blast and his mother is arrested for murder, and he becomes even more confused when his caretaker, Lacy Albert Coe, is victimized by townspeople who are offended that the elderly African-American storyteller has been left in charge of a white child.
year: 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: children of murder victims, fiction, family violence, victims of crimes, homicide, domestic violence, virginia, race relations, fiction, history