Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins

The time is 1950. The place is a small town in the Midwest. The girl is Claire and she has a new black friend. But in an all-white town how open can the girls be about their friendship?Now Claire faces being the new girl in school. A year later she is confronting betrayal . . . and sin. Finally she is fifteen and in love. But it is not a love that can be spoken of least of all by Claire five interrelated stories Claire grows into a young woman learning about racism sex and love along the way. Most of all she learns about truth.