In Spirit & Truth

IN SPIRIT & TRUTH is a story of race, love, social pressure, and personal change, across multiple cultures. Bobby Johnson's family was part of the great northern migration of the 1950s, seeking a better life and dependable work in Michigan's then-booming auto industry.  During the annual layoff for model-year changeover and at every other opportunity, however, the family returns home to rural Alabama, to live with Bobby's grandparents.  Amid the racial tensions of the summer of 1963, 10-year-old Bobby meets Millicent Cummins (Mercy), a 9-year-old African-American girl. The novel follows their secret and unlikely relationship through three tumultuous decades.