Legend of Buddy Bush (9781439131824)
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Thank you, Janice Bubb, who gave me access to the Northampton County Museum and the original articles about Buddy Bush.
Last but not least, I am grateful to my ancestors for giving me this story to tell, and to my beloved friend and mentor, Willie Stargell, who told me fourteen years ago to write this novel. It is written in your memory.
God Bless you all. . . .
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2004 by Shelia P. Moses
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The text for this book is set in Bembo.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moses, Shelia P.
The legend of Buddy Bush / Shelia P. Moses.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrest for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-85839-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-3182-4 (eBook)
[1. Race relations—Fiction. 2. African Americans—North Carolina—Rich Square—Fiction. 3. Family life—North Carolina—Fiction. 4. Sick—Fiction. 5. Grandparents—Fiction. 6. Rich Square (N.C.)—Race relations-Fiction. 7. North Carolina—History—20th century-Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.M8475Le 2004
[Fic]—dc21
2003008024