Name: Leaving Atlanta
ISBN: 9780446690898

Tayari Jones

An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.

Leaving Atlanta

Melody Izard

Didn't think I'd like it at first. The beginning felt like someone trying to force something into a box labeled 1979. But after stepping over the scattered jacks and coiled jumping ropes I walked into something genuine and heartfelt. Set among the weary, dirty streets of Atlanta in the late 70s a story of fear, desperation, pride, uncertainty and just simply doing what you got to do emerges with a clear, sure voice. Tayari Jones rides along in a side car just to make sure the story is told like she wants it.