Harper

9780062268679

STARRED REVIEW

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

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Review of ‘Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County’

BookPage Nonfiction Top Pick, June 2015

Kristen Green was born to write this book.

Growing up in the 1970s in Farmville, Virginia, she attended an all-white academy founded in 1959 by her beloved grandparents and others when white town leaders closed the public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders. Farmville’s schools remained shut…

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