Bibliograph

At first light, Vanessa Lafaye

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At first light, Vanessa Lafaye

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

At first light

Responsibility statement

Vanessa Lafaye

Summary

1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key West exiled in disgrace from her family in Havana. At the same time, damaged war hero John Morales returns home on the last US troop ship from Europe. As love draws them closer in this time of racial segregation, people are watching, including Dwayne Campbell, poised on the brink of manhood and struggling to do what's right. And then the Ku Klux Klan comes to town..

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At 1st light

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