Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins Format:Paperback A family’s first glimpse at

A family’s first glimpse at Martians

Cynical Eleanor is quick to dismiss this promise

and the murder itself feel a bit too neat

packed in there like sardines

where else could we have been

Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins Format:Paperback A family’s first glimpse atThe time is 1950. The place is a small town in the Midwest. The girl is Claire, and she has a new black friend. But in an all white town, how open can the girls be about their friendship? Now Claire faces being the new girl in school. A year later, she is confronting betrayal . . . and sin. Finally, she is fifteen and in love. But it is not a love that can be spoken of, least of all by Claire. In five interrelated stories, Claire grows into a young