Book 2016
Pieces of Why
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- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Published
- 2016
- Gospel singers
- Juvenile fiction
- Children's choirs
- Children of prisoners
- Traumatic neuroses
- Fathers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters
- Fiction
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.