This book was inspired by a real-life shooting that took place in May 1980. The black president of the National Urban League, Vernon Jordan, was shot as he was getting out of the car of a 36-year white woman, Martha Coleman, at 2 a.m. in Fort Wayne. The story hit newspaper headlines.Describing a similar incident, this fictional story captures the flavour of racial attitudes and interracial relationships in the 1970s when liaisons between white women...