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Stockdale is a new fictional release by author Priscilla Lalisse. The press release I came across describes it as a tale of encouragement — I guess it would be good to see some of that every now and then — between the hopeless cautionary tales with which we have become so accustomed!

During the 1980s in the small southern town of Stockdale, Alabama, where almost every remnant of segregation has been erased, the barrier that matters most, freedom to love regardless of color, still remains. For a forward-thinking young woman named Cassie Taylor, Stockdale has one barrier too many, and she would like nothing more than to leave town for good.

Taught early that she’s not free to love whomever she pleases in Stockdale due to the color of her skin, Cassie embarks on a search for love that first will take her into and out of the arms of Blake, a biracial boy from a broken home, and then into the arms of white military serviceman John, who may be her ticket out of Stockdale. In this tale of self-discovery, adventure, forbidden love and courage, a young woman finds out what happens in a place where being black or white can mean absolutely nothing…or everything.