Melissa Fay Greene

Melissa was born in Macon, Georgia, December 30, 1952, moved to Dayton, Ohio, in childhood, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1975. She returned to Georgia in ’75 to work for the Savannah office of Georgia Legal Services and was a witness to most of the events about which she later would write in Praying for Sheetrock. [Read more]

Praying for Sheetrock
Minerva, 1992 (PhP 100.00)
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Shortlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Set in the Deep South of the 1970s, this superb book tells the true story of the political awakening of a tiny black community. Here the people of McIntosh County, Georgia tell of their own experiences--stories that are outrageous, funny, eloquent and touching--in a historic struggle for civil equality.