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On the night of the county's biggest rally, Ella May, a strong female protagonist weighing the costs of her choice, makes up her mind to join the movement--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town--indeed all that she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a compelling dual timeline narrative, seventy-five years later, Ella May's daughter Lilly, now an elderly woman, tells her nephew about his grandmother and the events that transformed their family. 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