A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Reader’s Guide to Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones In her critically acclaimed debut, Tayari Jones explores the tragedy of the Atlanta Child Murders through the eyes of three unforgettable children. 'Tayari Jones is a wonderful storyteller. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones. coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.

'Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation.' - Essence Leaving Atlanta is a solid book whose structure enhances and elevates its plot and is a multi-layered and engaging piece of recent historical fiction. 'Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear.' - Michael Chabon The moving story of their struggle to grow up-and survive- shimmers with the piercing, ineffable quality of childhood, as it captures all the hurts and little wins, the all-too-sudden changes, and the merciless, outside forces that can sweep the young into adulthood and forever shape their lives. Here fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back-to-school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear.

It was the end of summer, a summer during the two-year nightmare in which Atlanta's African-American children were vanishing and twenty-nine would be found murdered by 1982.