The Queen of Palmyra

As she spends more and more time at the home of her grandparents' maid, Zenie, in the segregated South of the 1960s, Florence Forrest develops a sense for how race truly divides her town, but nothing prepares her for the tragedy that occurs after Zenie's niece, a vibrant college student, comes to stay for the summer. (Historical fiction). Simultaneous.