Gathering Blossoms Under Fire Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Fiction “Nearly every paragraph is laced

“Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense

before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion

evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizon—an evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves

“Deonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Fiction “Nearly every paragraph is lacedFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walkers fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and womens activist, and intellectual. For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and