thewest side of town. If you are rich, you live on the hill in the north end andget to go boating at the country club in Troy. If you are white you use onebathroom at Byer's Drugs and if you are colored you use another.All that starts to change in the summer of 1960. It is the summer when Maggie'syounger sister, Gardenia, triumphs in the Hayes County Little Miss Contest. Itis the summer when Maggie must decide whether or not to tell anyone about thehorrible thing she saw. Most of all it's the summer of Maggie's first camera, atool that becomes a way for her to find independence and a different kind oftruth.

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