I Am Lemonade Lucy

Product Description

"...delivers a fast-paced, energetic tale resonating with today's most troubling and important issues." -KIRKUS REVIEWS
Azza Amari, a headstrong, hijab-wearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College.
As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among the commuter school's working-class environs in tiny Fremont, Ohio, Azza comes into the orbit of 17-year-old Kip Beckelhymer, a precocious, history-obsessed senior trying to win back the love of Birdie Hudgins, his mercurial high-school sweetheart.
Together, Kip and Azza discover an extraordinary kinship. All the while, the conservative hamlet--and especially Birdie--struggles to come to grips with what seems like the whole of the Islamic world has intruded into their workaday lives. Things come to a head when Kip and Azza find themselves on an unusual treasure hunt. Their whimsical search takes on deadly serious overtones as the strange duo inadvertently finds themselves peeling back the corrosive layers of cowardice and hate that linger just below the surface of their society in the Heartland.

Review

IPPY Awards Silver - Best Multicultural Fiction
"Readers looking for an amusing diversion with some serious heart to it will find that I Am Lemonade Lucy! fits the bill nicely." -IndieReader
"...a compelling and provocative tale, infused with humor, suspense, friendship, and, ultimately, hope." -Jack Ford, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and author of Chariot on the Mountain
"Womack pens a driving tale that explores the pervasive xenophobia that threatens to divide our melting pot of a country while offering a whimsical mystery on the side to keep things from getting too serious." --Mike Farragher, author of 9 Rooms in Ballyglunin