Pieces of why
By: K.L. Going
Publisher: Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780803734746
Subjects: Gospel singers; Juvenile fiction; Children's choirs; Children of prisoners; Traumatic neuroses; Fathers and daughters; Mothers and daughters; Fiction; 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.