Leaving
Subtitle: a novel
By: Richard Dry
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: African American families; Fiction
Description: "In 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her thirteen-year-old half brother, Easton, board a bus in rural South Carolina, destined for Oakland, California. There, far from the violent events that forced her to flee her home, Ruby hopes to make a new life for her family.".

"Ruby gives birth to a daughter, Lida, and strives to raise the girl and Easton. But as their Oakland neighborhood changes during the turbulent 1960s, the three are driven apart by forces that Ruby cannot control. Easton becomes involved with civil rights activism and the Black Panthers; Lida, keeping a hurtful family secret to herself, spirals into a cycle of dependency and denial.

Finally, Lida's sons Love LeRoy and Li'l Pit must fend for themselves in the inhospitable streets of America, leaving one city for another, searching for a home."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-452).