AR Book Level
5.1
AR Points
23
Word Count
149,116
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
105001 EN
About this book
Hortense arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero but finds his status as a black man second class.