**From the author of _A Place at the Table_ and _A Soft Place to Land_ , a gripping, multigenerational story inspired by true events that follows two best friends through their political awakenings in the turbulent 1960s--and the repercussions of their actions after their daughters encounter the sec
We Are All Good People Here
β Scribed by Susan Rebecca White
- Publisher
- Atria Books;Touchstone
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
From the author of A Place at the Table and A Soft Place to Land , a gripping, multigenerational story inspired by true events that follows two best friends through their political awakenings in the turbulent 1960s--and the repercussions of their actions after their daughters encounter the secrets they thought they had buried long ago.
Eve Whalen, privileged child of an old-money Atlanta family, meets Daniella Gold in the fall of 1962, on their first day at Belmont College. Paired as roommates, the two become fast friends. Daniella, raised in Georgetown by a Jewish father and a Methodist mother, has always felt caught between two worlds. But at Belmont, her bond with Eve allows her to finally experience a sense of belonging. That is, until the girls' expanding awareness of the South's caste system forces them to question everything they thought they knew about the world and their places in it.
Eve veers toward radicalism--a choice pragmatic...
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