The gettin place

By Susan Straight

Subjects: African Americans, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, family life, African American families, Fiction, Tulsa (okla.), fiction

Description: In California, a black family are harassed by the police after bodies of murdered whites are found on their property. There is ground to believe the family has been framed by people who want to grab their land, but police prefer to believe the family are the killers. By the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots.