A ridicule wasn’t supposed to hurt. But it did. It sliced like a knife.
1941 - all America is filled with rumblings of war in Europe and the Pacific. But Cassie Logan has reason to be more concerned with trouble back home in Mississippi. In this new story about the Logan family, Cassie is finishing high school in the city of Jackson and dreaming of college and law school. But no amount of schooling could prepare her for the tense dramas that are about to converge: a quarrel between two young lovers; a black friend’s rage at his white tormentors and a white youth’s remorse over his part in a violent incident.
Caught up in the centre, Cassie is propelled into three harrowing, exhilarating, unforgettable days that force her to confront the adult world as never before.