A Homicide in Hooker's Point

As a quintessential storyteller at the top of her form, Gloria Taylor Weinberg delves into the realities of life in this hauntingly unforgettable novel.

In the fall of 1950, eight-year old Vicki Leigh Bayle learns that prejudice is not always about color, and that truth, as adults define it, is malleable. She learns that love and hate are drawn from the same well, and that some of the people she loves most keep stores of each in equal measure.

The day after neighbor Eric Magruder kills her ki...