![]() ![]() ![]() Parsons's residents-both Black and white-are forced to acknowledge the unspoken codes of conduct in their post-Reconstruction era town. ![]() She and her Grandma Birdie work as housekeepers for the white widow Miss Peggy, and Opal desperately wants some time to be young and carefree with her cousins and friends.īut when the Ku Klux Klan descends on Opal's neighborhood, the tight-knit community is shaken in every way possible. She hopes this foreboding feeling won't overshadow her upcoming 18th birthday or the annual Founder's Day celebration in just a few weeks. The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt senses a nameless storm brewing. A moving story that confronts America's tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s-and then the Klan descends. ![]()
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