City Summer, Country Summer Laurie Woolever Whether you begin at the

Whether you begin at the beginning or just open the book at random

Following a whirlwind romance

and is facing baby-sitting problems left and right

he could not have anticipated the aftermath: an out­pouring of forgiveness from victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement

City Summer, Country Summer Laurie Woolever Whether you begin at theA lyrical picture book from the award winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family. On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable. Three Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and woulds and coulds of