The rest of the time, it was only for his motel guests. Mister Abrams opened it to us kids six weeks a year. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.ĮVEN IF THE BILLBOARD OUT front said that the Camelot was the perfect rest stop for snowbirds passing through Akersburg on their way to Florida, it owed its survival to the moms who brought us kids to the pool out back. With Huey’s head-shaking antics fueling this coming-of-age narrative, the novel triumphs as a tender and honest exploration of race, identity, family, and homeland, and a work that is “emotionally acute.eye-opening and rewarding for a wide range of readers” ( Library Journal, starred review).
With his promising school career in limbo, he begins to reflect on his memories of growing up in Akersburg during the Civil Rights Movement-and the chilling moments leading up to his and his mother’s flight north. After a momentary slip of his temper, Huey finds himself on academic probation and facing legal charges. At Claremont, where the only other nonwhite person is the janitor, Huey quickly realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of Akersburg, Georgia, leaving behind Huey’s white father and the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee River.īut for our sharp-tongued protagonist, forgetting the past is easier said than done. It’s 1968 when fourteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins high school at Claremont Prep, one of New York City’s most prestigious boys’ schools.
2019 First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationĪn “urgent and heartrending novel about an America on the brink” (Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood), They Come in All Colors follows a biracial teenage boy who finds his new life in the big city disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point.
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