Magnolias Don't Bloom in September
A Young Yankee Teacher is Swept into the Cultural Clashes of Integration in Mississippi
By Carol Lynn Luck
After a year of teaching well-behaved, intelligent students in New York, Kenda Kirkenbaum takes a chance and accepts a job in West Belfield, Mississippi, certain that the only thing different is the location. Unfortunately, Kenda has no idea of social politics in the Deep South....