{"product_id":"mockingbird-summer-9781662504518","title":"Mockingbird Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWest with Giraffes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new \"grown-up\" novel, \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e. America's take on it is different and profoundly personal. As their friendship grows, Corky finds out so much more about America's life and her hidden skill: she can run as fast as Olympian Wilma Rudolph!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Corky asks America to play with her girls' softball team for the annual church rivals game, it's a move that crosses the color line and sets off a firestorm. As tensions escalate, it fast becomes a season of big changes in High Cotton. For Corky, those changes will last a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet on the eve of massive cultural shifts, \u003ci\u003eMockingbird Summer\u003c\/i\u003e explores the impact of great books, the burden of potential, and the power of friendship with humor, poignancy, and exhilarating hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRutledge, Lynda:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLynda Rutledge is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWest with Giraffes\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by Library of Congress-affiliated Texas Center for the Book as their 2023 Great Read. She's also the author of \u003ci\u003eFaith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2013 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Award and adapted into the major 2018 French film \u003ci\u003eLa derni?re folie de Claire Darling\u003c\/i\u003e starring Catherine Deneuve. Her fiction has won awards and residencies from Atlantic Center for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation, among many others. In her eclectic career before becoming a novelist, she was a copywriter, freelance journalist, film reviewer, book collaborator, and travel writer. After years residing in urban locales including Chicago and San Diego, she currently lives with her husband outside Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more information, visit www.lyndarutledge.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lake Union Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50576898064658,"sku":"9781662504518","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b533826-057a-468f-b51e-24599be44308.jpg?v=1748686914","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mockingbird-summer-9781662504518","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}