![]() ![]() ![]() Fatefully, Ellie is assigned to work with a SCOPE contingent operating in her home county. ![]() Her father and mother are vehemently opposed, her brother, Buddy, somewhat less vehemently. Ellie is the rare White Southern volunteer. In 1965, 20-year-old Ellie Hockley, a student at the University of North Carolina, joins SCOPE, a summer project recruiting mostly White, Northern college students to help Black Southerners register to vote in anticipation of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Ann, a stranger, knows too much about Kayla, including that she has a small daughter, that she’s about to move into a new house in an upscale but isolated new development, and that it's a house she had intended to share with her husband, Jackson, who died of an accidental fall at the construction site. In 2010, architect Kayla Carter is visited by Ann Smith, a “sixty-five or seventy”-year-old woman in mirrored sunglasses, who comes to her office seemingly intent on scaring her. ![]() This is a novel of alternating timelines, each unspooling in or near Round Hill, a small town in North Carolina. Chamberlain’s tale of mid-1960s freedom fighters intersects with contemporary tragedy. ![]()
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