Beneath the Sycamore Tree

Beneath the Sycamore Tree is a period piece that spans from the 1960s to 1980s. While the novel’s setting is from that era, the ignorance and preconceived attitudes the protagonist as well as her family experiences are all relevant today. It chronicles the life of a young black girl from a middle-class family in Jackson, Mississippi; who through her relationship with her grandmother discovers drea...