As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley Barbour befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and she becomes romantically involved with a handsome white classmate who is a drug dealer. Reprint.
A chilling, modern love story--love intertwined with high-school politics, drug deals, addiction, heavy metal concerts, and the pressures of sexual involvement--by one of the most distinguished writers of our time.