Morgan Salter

Alyssa and her friends make their way home from school and spend another afternoon in the suburbs, navigating the new pressures they face while teetering on the cusp of girlhood and womanhood.

Radical politics were raging in Halifax in the late 1960s, but in sleepy Lake Loon, it took the arrival of a mysterious man from the USA to awaken Black Consciousness in the mind of ten-year-old Deanna Sparks.