Caught up in the middle of the fallout after Billy Ray's unexpected death is Dr. Tate Jr., a 10-year-old black boy known as "Critter," drives poor white man Billy Ray Puckett to the whites-only emergency room after Billy Ray has a hunting accident. In Johnson's vivid debut, Revere, Miss., is a 1966 small town teetering on the brink of integration. With fully realized characters and a mystery that will keep readers turning pages until the end, The Air Between Us is a heart-filled, endearing tale. Reese Jackson, so prominent he has garnered an Ebony profile, tries to stay above the fray. Cooper Connelly, who hails from a prominent white family, takes an unexpectedly progressive view toward school integration while the esteemed Dr. Suddenly the connections between whites and blacks are revealed to be deeper than anyone expected, which makes the town's struggle with integration that much more complicated. No one thinks much of his death-just a typical hunting accident-until the sheriff orders an investigation. But the truth is brought to the forefront when Billy Ray Puckett, a white man wounded while hunting, shows up at the segregated Doctors Hospital. The two rarely mix, or so everyone believes. Black people live on one side of town and whites live on the other. Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking" is not unlike most Southern towns in the sixties.
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