Girl Gone North

GIRL GONE NORTH was shortlisted for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Award.

Sisters Emma and Thalia Holden are raised in a home of limited means, reasonable happiness, but abundant love, and life in the Lower Ninth Ward is good to their youthful eyes despite vicious battles for and against segregation flaring in the streets of their city and across America.

In what seems like a dream opportunity, nineteen-year-old Emma accepts a job with a prominent white family outside Boston, where she co...