If the Moon Had Willow Trees - Paperback

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by Kathleen Hall (Author)

The award-winning author of The Otherness Factor takes us to Detroit two days after Detroit cops raid a blind pig (speakeasy) inciting the biggest race riot in American history. That morning Maggie Soulier wakes to a deejay's cry for 'anyone left in the city' to hustle pop to police sweltering at highway checkpoints leading into the firestorm.

Maggie's not a hippie chick looking for a cause, she's the daughter of notorious French Canadian secessionist radicals who disappeared without a trace. A grad student on a visa, Maggie covers absences at a pizzeria to support her stateside civil rights work. Delivering soft drinks to keep armed men from having a meltdown sounded simple. That was before she met Sam Tervo on the wrong side of a gun--before she offered him a Coke, before shared laughter ricocheted against shrieking sirens and a darkening sky.

Sam, a fierce human rights advocate, thinks he's being targeted by mafia types who want something; the question is what. More and more he relies on his friend Clyde Webster, a black civil rights leader and Maggie's co-worker, to guide him through this underworld. Cold sober in the ash, soot and rubble, Clyde pulls together The Eights: eight working-poor, part-time activists, to curb white flight and integrate the burbs.

With the intrigue, corruption, brutality and bigotry, The Eights experience the love, laughter, irony and self-reflection of blacks and whites redefining friendship and transforming the world with pocket change.

Author Biography

Kathleen Hall was born in Detroit and raised in Livonia, a white-flight suburb. This backdrop, and the turbulence of the Sixties, provoked her lifelong activism for human rights, civil rights and women's rights. A writer, poet, lawyer, mediator and workplace investigator, Kathleen co-authored the IPPY award-winning non-fiction, THE OTHERNESS FACTOR. IF THE MOON HAD WILLOW TREES is her first novel. Kathleen lives and writes in Austin, Texas with her husband Loren, Emma Dog, Ms. Ming Cat and Sasha Cat.

Number of Pages: 270

Dimensions: 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: June 22, 2017