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02112aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 43F7E7BE540911EC8AFFC1EC4EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211203011850 008 210427s2021 miu d 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2021934632 020 $a 9780814348697 020 $a 0814348696 035 $a (OCoLC)1247836960 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d ILC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d APL $d LMJ $d OCLCF $d DPL $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us-mi $a n-us-mi 050 4 $a PS3605.L775 $b H69 2021 082 04 $a 813.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Elster, Jean Alicia, $e author. 245 10 $a How it happens / $c Jean Alicia Elster. 264 1 $a Detroit : $b Wayne State University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 224 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Great Lakes books series 500 $a "[Follows] the fictionalized story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson." -- back cover. 520 $a Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson, a married African-American housekeeper at one of the white boardinghouses in town, and Tom Mitchell, a commanding white attorney from a prominent family. We follow Dorothy May's experiences with race relations and class division, both as a child and later as a teacher. Dorothy May, choosing between her career and marriage to a man she barely knows, moves to Detroit. -- adapted from back cover 521 $a Grades 7-9 $b Wayne State University Press. 600 10 $a Jackson, Addie $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Jackson, Dorothy May, $d 1890- $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racially mixed women $z Tennessee $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American women $z Tennessee $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Young adult fiction. 651 0 $a Tennessee $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Detroit (Mich.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Great Lakes books. 941 $a 2 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220104011040.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211203011945.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=43F7E7BE540911EC8AFFC1EC4EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search