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Heartbreak Hotel

Maggie Deloach has everything going for her. She's one of the most popular girls on Randolph University's campus, beloved of the faculty and the student body. She belongs to the best sorority and is pinned to the most eligible fraternity boy, Boots Claibornes. From an impeccable lineage, Maggie was brought up to behave like a perfect Southern belle. Maggie knows the rules and is willing to play by them, which all but guarantees her a future of smooth sailing, with no surprises, and no disappointments. But this is Alabama, in the summer of 1956, and the world is about to be rocked by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Maggie runs into a young newspaper reporter, Hoyt Cunningham, who begins to open her eyes to the momentous societal changes that are happening all around her. Responding to her obvious intelligence, Hoyt challenges her to become a part of the veritable revolution that is sweeping the nation. A visit to the Claiborne family estate in the delta brings Maggie face to face with the cruel injustices of segregation and racism. Her newly-awakened moral indignation drives her to write an incendiary article in Randolph's college newspaper that forever changes the way people think of Maggie, and how she thinks of herself. As the nation rocks to Elvis Presley tunes and the winds of change blow across the South, Maggie is launched onto a wrenching journey of self-discovery that threatens to shatter her whole world.

Heartbreak Hotel
by Anne Rivers Siddons

  • Publication Date: July 15, 1993
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: HarperTorch
  • ISBN-10: 0061042781
  • ISBN-13: 9780061042782