The obituary

By Shelia P. Moses

Subjects: African Americans, Families, Grandparents, Family, Fiction, History, Race relations

Description: Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem, New York, to find her uncle who has escaped from the Ku Klux Klan.