In this second epic novel of bestselling The Door of No Return trilogy, we meet Charlie, Kofi's granddaughter, who is living in the Jim Crow South.
In this second riveting novel of the bestselling The Door of No Return trilogy, set 60 years later, twelve-year-old Charlie lives with her family including her grandfather Kofi in a small, segregated town in Virginia. She has a happy childhood, which includes Sunday church picnics, baseball games with her best friend Willie Green, and listening to her grandfather tell her stories of Africa. But it is suddenly torn apart when a racist incident escalates.