Parker Hewitt

ISBN-13: 9781530196487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Steven Schaffer

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Can you fall in love with a psychopathic murderer? Sure you can Parker Hewitt is a seemingly dim-witted White grocery clerk in small town Mountville, NC where he fights Jim Crow his way knocking off Klan members who prevent his Black friends from achieving their dreams. Will the family know Martin Luther King, Jr. and help change the course of history? Is Parker Hewitt a Hero or a Zero? The interwoven stories of the families of Mountville are engaging and riveting, heart-warming and gut-wrenching. Readers will be swept away and left with much to ponder in this brilliant first major work from this new novelist. Steven Schaffer spent over 30 years as a social studies teacher in Maryland public schools. He continues to write about injustice, politics, theater and is writing children's' books that are lot happier. He lives in complete happiness in Maryland with his wife, Sue.