Blog: Women's Voices #Little Texas

This is an excerpt from my novel, Little Texas. Three young women, born and raised together in Clovis, New Mexico, USA, find their lives upended following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Clovie, Susan, and Akiko are in their senior year of high school when Akiko disappears overnight with the entire Japanese colony.

What I remember; what I've learned. In the Little Texas culture I lived in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr was not seen as a legitimate Christian preacher, much less a hero. But black women across the USA are now the citizens who will save our democracy.