Jaybird's Song [Paperback]

Affectionately called Jaybird by the father she adores, Josie Flints idyllic childhood in 1960s Atlanta is defined by her role as the oldest of the three Flint sisters and crowned with the presence of her grandmother, Annie Jo the maypole that centers the Flint family. Surrounding their world, however, is the turbulent South as Jim Crow laws come to an end. As Josies school desegregates and the country meanders through new ideas brought about by the Civil Rights movement, a personal tragedy breaches Josies world and shatters that perfect childhood. Josies story is told from her early teenage years and 35 years later when her beloved grandmother dies. And when a long-kept secret unfolds for the Flint family, a new kind of heartache begins.