The house you pass on the way
About this book
Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat from the world. This summer she has a new reason to feel set apart--her confused longing for her friend Hazel. When cousin Trout comes to stay, she gives Staggerlee a first glimpse of her possible future selves and the world beyond childhood.
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- children's fiction
- cousins
- family, fiction
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- homosexuality
- homosexuality, fiction
- identity
- interracial marriage
- interracial marriage, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- lambda literary awards
- lambda literary award winner
- large type books
- lesbians
- lgbtq young adult
- racially mixed people
- racially mixed people, fiction
- southern states, fiction