Showing results for "Sunset" in Coming of Age

Jude and his friends are penniless, jobless, and spend most of their days at the Shack bartering for booze. They have known each other for years, yet they don't know much about each other. That is until the group of misfits embark on a twenty-four hour adventure to fulfill the wish of a six-year old boy who's spent most of his life in hospitals fighting a rare cancer. Along the way, their drive, compassion, and courage transforms them. If they succeed, their lives could change forever.

Bull Santee, a 13-year-old Black boy, is being held by the sheriff of tiny Sunset, Mississippi, for sneaking into a White man's backyard and brutally beating his pet dog to death. But Shy Brown knows Bull didn't do it. How does Shy, a privileged White kid from Memphis and the grandson of one of the most important men in Sunset, get involved in something as ugly and disturbing as this? What does Shy know? How does he know it? And what is he going to do about it?