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Tracy Beaumont spends every week writing to Innocence X, pleading for justice for her father, a Black man on death row. Seven years later, a dwindling 267‑day countdown forces Tracy into a desperate battle as her younger brother Jamal, a promising track star, is suddenly accused of killing a white girl. Determined to clear his name, Tracy investigates the events at Pike, confronting the long‑established, often buried, racial tensions in their Texas community. Her quest challenges her family to face the skeletons of a town’s racist past and reveals how unresolved injustice can erupt into tragedy for the living.
First publish date: 2020
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Kim Johnson
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