Skip to content »

Front Street Teens

Photography in fiction: Sources of Light

In keeping with this month’s theme, I wanted to mention another book where photography plays a role in the story. Sources of Light by Margaret McMullan (Jh MCM) may be found in the Jh section (Youth Services, second floor).   Here’s the summary (courtesy of Goodreads):

It’s 1962, a year after the death of Sam’s father–he was a war hero–and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father’s conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don’t quite fit in. People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her mother, and her mother’s artist friend, Perry, are in the South to “agitate” and to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it all to grey. As racial injustices ensue–sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists–Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.

Add new comment

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

777 Front Street Lisle, IL 60532 | Phone: 630-971-1675 | Fax: 630-971-1701 | Hours: M-F 9:30am-9:00pm, SAT 9:30am-5:00pm, SUN 1:00pm-5:00pm