Found in pieces : a novel
(Book)

"In 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family’s financial future to buy a small, defunct Southern weekly. Before she can get the paper up and running, her husband loses his job, a smoldering desegregation crisis flames up in the state capital, and Elton Washington—a young black man whose mother, Sadie Rose, is also a businesswoman—disappears. The mystery of Elton’s whereabouts brings Pearl and Sadie Rose together in a gut-wrenching search for truth and justice and leaves Pearl facing editorial and business decisions that could lead to more money woes and even physical harm to herself and those around her. The women’s lives are complicated further when townspeople learn what happened with Elton. Meanwhile, as the head of the local White Citizens’ Council stirs racial hatred, another prominent white man hides a dark secret that Sadie Rose knows but will not tell. When new violence follows, Pearl becomes key to the answers." --back cover