Pieces of why

By K. L. Going

Subjects: Children's choirs, Fathers and daughters, Children of prisoners, Fiction, Gospel singers, Juvenile fiction, Traumatic neuroses, Mothers and daughters, Choirs (Music)

Description: Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.