Pieces of why

Description:

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.

subjects: Gospel singers,  Juvenile fiction,  Children's choirs,  Children of prisoners,  Traumatic neuroses,  Fathers and daughters,  Mothers and daughters,  Fiction,  Choirs (Music)

Places: New Orleans (La.),  Louisiana,  New Orleans