Iggie's House (2012)
“Racial tensions were high, especially after the assassination in 1968 of Martin Luther King, Jr. The ongoing fight for racial equality affected all of us one way or another. At the time, I was almost as naive as Winnie is in this book, wanting to make the world a better place but not knowing how.
When Winnie refers to the race riots in Detroit and asks the Garber kids if their father was involved, the Garbers are offended, and who can blame them? I had neighbors in the New Jersey suburb where I lived at the time who talked about arming themselves in case the race riots in Newark spilled over to our street, which was as white as Grove Street, where Winnie lives. That kind of thinking makes it hard for kids to become friends.
This book takes place during one week of summer.
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