Swift River

Essie Chambers

The only mixed-race girl in a mill town, and letters from an aunt filling in a father's disappearance.

In a Massachusetts mill town in 1980, sixteen-year-old Diamond is the only mixed-race girl she knows, living with her mother in the years after her Black father walked out and did not come back. Letters from an aunt she has never met begin to fill in the family history that was kept from her.

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