The World Is Full of Champions

By J. H. Sullivan

Book Overview

The World is Full of Champions spans more than thirty years from the '60s to the late '90s in race-torn Philadelphia as two proud Black families--one wealthy, the other not--confront major change when tragedy strikes and the daughter of the working-class Smythe family falls in love with the son of the affluent Whitman family.

Georgia Smythe and her mother live on the rough side of town. As a young girl, she loses her father in a tragic mining accident, but overcomes her loss to become a thoughtful and attractive young woman. She falls in love with Lawrence, the handsome son of the Whitman family for whom her mother works as a maid. The Whitmans, recovering from the death of Lawrence's brother in a hit-and-run car accident, have other ideas about whom their remaining son should marry and are concerned about how such a liaison will affect their social position.

How will the two families deal with Georgia and Lawrence's relationship and the unintended divulging of a closely guarded secret?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637588585
• ISBN13: 9781637588581
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.6"