Hot Chocolate and the Vanilla Gorilla: An unexpected Love Story

By Douglas Coiner

This is a story for the ages. Though basically a love story it takes place at a time in our history that made their love almost impossible and very dangerous. Minnie Upton was a strong-minded black teenager growing up in the inner-city of Memphis Tennessee in 1958. She and eight of her fellow students were among the first to be bused to the all-white school of Bartlett TN, in the suburbs of the city. Minnie finds herself being denigrated, threatened and abused by the unaccepting white culture and is finally threatened physically by some of her fellow students. It is then that Sam Rutherford, a white upper-classman who was an outcast in his own right because of a congenital condition which had caused him to grow and an accelerated rate, decides to step in and become Minnie's protector. It is within this environment of indiscriminate violence and pervasive racism that these two social exiles find unexpected love. The odds are stacked against them but they are up for the challenge because they have finally found something that is worth fighting for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1986072843
• ISBN13: 9781986072847
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"