Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 256279Title: Leaving AtlantaAuthor: Tayari JonesNarrator: Kevin R. Free, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Robin MilesFormat: UnabridgedLength: 07:23:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 03-22-06Publisher: Recorded BooksGenres: Fiction & Literature, Black LiteratureSummary:From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is 'one of the most important voices of her generation' (Essence).It was the end of summer, a summer during the two-year nightmare in which Atlanta's African-American children were vanishing and twenty-nine would be found murdered by 1982. Here fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back-to-school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear.The moving story of their struggle to grow upand surviveshimmers with the piercing, ineffable quality of childhood, as it captures all the hurts and little wins, the all-too-sudden changes, and the merciless, outside forces that can sweep the young into adulthood and forever shape their lives.Contact: [email protected]

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