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UNDER A DARK SUMMER SKY  

WFLA Chief Meteorologist Steve Jerve introduces British novelist Vanessa Lafaye's newest book "Under a Dark Summer Sky" on the 80th Anniversary of the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that hit Florida's Middle Keys.   

By: Vanessa Lafaye

ISBN: 9781492612506

Publisher: SOURCEBOOKS Landmark   

Publication Date:  6/9/2015 

Format:  Other

My Rating:  5 Stars + 

Horrifying and beautiful, Under a Dark Summer Sky is a fictionalized account of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history.

Florida Keys, 1935. Hurricane Season.

Tens of thousands of black and white men scarred by their experiences of war in Europe return home to find themselves abandoned to destitution by the US government.

The tiny, segregated community of Heron Key is suddenly overwhelmed by broken, disturbed men with new ideas about racial equality and nothing left to lose.

Tensions flare when a black veteran is accused of committing the most heinous crime of all against a white resident’s wife. And not far off the strongest and most intense hurricane America has ever witnessed is gaining force.

For fans of The Help and To Kill a Mockingbird, this is the story of the greatest tragedy you've never heard of.

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