Title: The strength of saints
Description: In 1936, fourteen-year-old Nissa takes a stand against racial prejudice and for her own integrity and independence, drawing on the support of her individualistic mother, her father, stepmother, and some of the inhabitants of their Louisiana town.
Subjects: City and town life, Conduct of life, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Race relations, Remarriage, Conduct of life, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Cities and towns, fiction, Louisiana, fiction, Children's fiction, Parent and child, fiction
Places: Louisiana