Title: Sources of light
Description: Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Subjects: Coming of age, Race relations, Segregation, Photography, History, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Family, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century