Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands: Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands: A Novel

In the orange-blossomed-scented spring of 1951, Reesa McMahon is awakened in the night to discover that the local Klan has brutally murdered her closest friend and mentor, nineteen-year-old Marvin Wiley. The killing of this gentle black man will turn the genteel town of Mayflower, Florida, into a battleground. As violence erupts over the state, and the NAACP join the McMahons in the hunt for Marvin's killers, Reesa's younger brother becomes the target of a Klansman's bullet. Reesa's painful search to make sense of her town's soul-destroying bigotry will pave the way for her rite of passage into adulthood and our country's painful steps toward justice, in a poignant and unforgettable novel destined to become a classic.