Going, K. L.

Pieces of why / K.L. Going. - 209 pages ; 22 cm.

Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.

ISBN: 9781338135831 (paperback) 0803734743 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2014040314

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gospel singers
Children's choirs
Children of prisoners
Traumatic neuroses
Fathers and daughters
Mothers and daughters

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6 Fic