Ticket to Exile: A Memoir
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1597140651
ISBN 13
9781597140652
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Pages
237
Description
At age nineteen, A.D. Miller sat in a jail cell. His crime? He passed a white girl a note that read, ''I would like to get to know you better.'' For this he was accused of attempted rape. Ticket to Exile recounts Miller's coming-of-age in Depression-era Orangeburg, South Carolina. Miller reconstructs the sights, sounds and social complexities of the pre-civil rights South, and his youth as a closet rebel who successfully evaded the worst strictures of a racially segregated small town. By the time he is forced into exile, we realize that this fate was inevitable for a young man too intelligent and aware of the limitations of his society to remain there without disastrous consequences. - from Amzon
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1
