Cover of The gettin place

Book 1996

The gettin place

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Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Published
1996
  • African American families
  • African Americans
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Tulsa (okla.), fiction
  • History
  • Families

In California, a black family are harassed by the police after bodies of murdered whites are found on their property. There is ground to believe the family has been framed by people who want to grab their land, but police prefer to believe the family are the killers. By the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots.