{"title":"Deborah Johnson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-air-between-us-paperback","title":"The Air Between Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevere, Mississippi, with its population of \"20,000 and sinking,\" is not unlike most Southern towns in the 1960s. Blacks live on one side of town and whites on the other. The two rarely mix. Or so everyone believes. But the truth is brought to the forefront when Critter, who is only ten, black and barely tall enough to see over the dashboard, drives Billy Ray--wounded in a suspicious hunting accident--to the segregated Doctor's Hospital. Dr. Cooper Connelly, the town's most high-profile resident, assures Billy Ray's family he'll be fine. He dies, however, and most people assume it is just a typical hunting accident--until the sheriff orders an investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly the connections between white and black are revealed to be deeper than anyone expects, which makes the town's struggle with integration that much more complicated and consuming. Dr. Connelly takes an unexpectedly progressive view toward integration; the esteemed Dr. Reese Jackson, who is so prominent that even \u003cem\u003eEbony\u003c\/em\u003e has profiled him, tries to stay above the fray. 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P. Calhoun, one of the most reclusive authors in the country. Calhoun has requested that the NAACP investigate the murder of a young Black man, Joe Howard Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a child, Regina was captivated by Calhoun's \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Magic\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel in which white and Black children played together in a magical forest. The book was a sensation--featured on the cover of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine--and banned more than any other novel in the South. And then the author disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a stand-in for Marshall, Robichard travels to Revere, Mississippi, to find out the truth behind the murder of Wilson, who was among scores of Black men returning from the war. 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