Leaving Atlanta Av Tayari Jones

<B>From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection <I>An American Marriage</I>, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is "one of the most important voices of her generation" (<I>Essence</I>). </B><DIV>  </DIV><DIV> 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.<BR/><BR/> The moving story of their struggle to grow up-and survive- shimmers 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.<BR/><BR/><B>PRAISE FOR TAYARI JON