"Kathya Alexander triumphs in bringing the complexities of the civil rights era to life, complete with its injustices, anger, grief and tragedies. This is a very important book for today, as the U.S. potentially again finds itself in the grip of the illusion that violence will ever lead to anything good." - The Bay Area Reporter Grappling with grief, ancestral trauma, and a family, community, and society in flux, Mandy dares to dream...