In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class Until Xena gets a once-in-a-lifetime

Until Xena gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take her fashion brand from Savannah to New York City—just after track star Memphis clenches an Olympic spot…

an ice-cream sundae

and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather

Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times

very little in this saga is exactly as it seems

In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class Until Xena gets a once-in-a-lifetimeThe fates of two unforgettable womenone just beginning a journey of reckoning and self discovery and the other completing her life's last vital actintertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda