The Changelings

About this book

First published in 1955 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize this novel revolves around a pair of stubborn adolescent girls who refuse to accept the racism and anti-Semitism of their respective communities. Their courage allows them to question and to cross over into the no-mans land of segregated urban neighborhoods claimed most recently by Jews but now in the early fifties increasingly by African-Americans. The New York Times praised the power with which the author reveals the impact of racial struggle on the new generation whose survival lies in their power to love.