Tar Beach

What you need to know before your trail

Eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot flies above her apartment-building rooftop in New York

This is the ‘tar beach’ of the title and is how Cassie sees her world in1939 Harlem. Part autobiographical, part fictional, this story is full of wonderful notes about the African- American culture. The best way to really see the world you’re in is from the top looking down if you can!