Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to meet beloved author Margaret McMullan, who will be in the store for an afternoon book signing. Her latest book for young readers, Sources of Light is a masterfully crafted novel about friends and family, racism and heartbreaking injustice. She is also the author of historical middle-grade novels When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong, the young adult novel Cashay, and two books for adults: In My Mother’s House and When Warhol Was Still Alive.
ABOUT THE BOOK
It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father in Vietnam, and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi. Some of their new neighbors fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother's artist friend, Perry, have come to the South to shake up the dividing lines between black people and white people. As racial injustices ensue—sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists—Sam learns to focus her camera lens on the rapidly changing world around her, bringing social inequalities out of the darkness and into the light.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret McMullan is the acclaimed author of When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong, as well as the adult novels In My Mother's House and When Warhol Was Still Alive. Her work has appeared in such publications as Glamour, The Chicago Tribune, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is a professor and the chair of the English department at the University of Evansville in Indiana.
