
A much-honored authro succeeds brilliantly at a new task--telling it like it is at an inner-city magnet school, where black Talley's best friend is white Didi Adair, in love with a drug addict . . . (The characters are) vivid and plausible. . . . Hamilton demonstrates that a...


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.