they come in all colors by malcolm hansen

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. Retrieved April 9, 2021.2019 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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They come in all colors by malcolm hansen