Now it's time to say goodbye
By: Dale Peck.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Race relations -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Fiction.; Kansas -- Fiction.
Description: Colin Nieman and Justin Time abandon New York City for the tiny Kansas village of Galatea. Racially polarized and desperately poor, the town is dominated by Rosemary Krebs, a white matriarch determined to resurrect her lost Southern childhood, and Abraham Greeving, the black preacher who will do anything to stop her.

As their stories unfold, we learn the truth about Galatea's dark past and even darker future; of Eric Johnson, an albino black man lynched because of the color of his skin, and of Lucy Robinson, the white teenager who must pay for her parent's crimes.