Deed So - a coming-of-age story - takes place in a small Southern town in 1962. It was the last year of innocence - the year before the Kennedy assassination the civil rights struggle feminist activism and the Vietnam War changed America forever.
Brainy 12-year-old Agnes Hayden 'Haddie' Bashford wants nothing more than to leave Wicomico Corners and escape to the exciting world beyond its narrow tradition-bound borders. A series of shocking incidents brings the outside world crashing down on her backward village exposing long-buried family secrets and setting Haddie on a collision course with an unstable firebrand who will have to silence her to protect his identity.
Deed So is a novel in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird laying bare the issues that marked the Sixties as a turning point in American History.
?2010 Katharine A. Russell (P)2011 Katharine A. Russell
