Title: The everlasting now
Description: In 1937 Alabama, eleven-year-old Brother helps with his mother's boardinghouse, gains insight into prejudice when he befriends the nephew of the family's maid, and dreams of riding a train one day with the railroadmen who serve as his substitute fathers.
Subjects: Boardinghouses, Race relations, Depressions, History, Friendship, Family life, Fiction, Children's fiction, Depressions, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Family life, fiction, Alabama, fiction
Places: Alabama
Time periods: 1929, 20th century