A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

When Titus Horace, a successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa for the segregated North Carolina of 1950. 

Uprooted from the only life she has known, young Asa confronts the harsh realities of the Jim Crow South—barred from the town library despite her father's standing as a college professor. As she falls for a musically gifted young man living on the family's land, she joins a small, diverse community quietly resisting segregation. 

A finalist for the International Beverly Prize.