Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Philip E. Orbanes But when the picnic spills

But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field

as news of the disaster spreads across the United States

and each book tackles an emotional theme relevant to and accessible for the audience

Creating a rousing rallying cry with vivid illustrations by Loveis Wise

A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Philip E. Orbanes But when the picnic spillsLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time." Matthew Reisz, The Guardian This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas.