Crow

Crow by Wright, Barbara. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780375869280.

The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. Hes growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. Hes teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time shes sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power theyve earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the status quo. One generation away from slavery, a thriving African American community—enfranchised and emancipated—suddenly and violently loses its freedom in turn of the century North Carolina when a group of local politicians stages the only successful coup detat in US history.