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The Legend of Buddy Bush
By Shelia P. Moses
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The day Uncle Goodwin "Buddy" Bush came from Harlem all the way back home to Rehobeth Road in Rich Square, North Carolina, is the day twelve-year-old Pattie Mae Sheals' life changes forever.

Pattie Mae adores and admires Uncle Buddy -- he's tall and handsome and he doesn't believe in the country stuff most people believe in, like ghosts and stepping off the sidewalk to let white folks pass. He unsettles the dust and brings fresh ideas to Rehobeth Road. But when Buddy's deliberate inattention to the protocol of 1947 North Carolina lands him in jail for a crime he didn't commit, Pattie Mae and her family are suddenly set to journeying on the long, hard road that leads from loss and rage to forgiveness and pride.

How did you come to write this book?

Shelia P. Moses Shelia P. Moses

The Legend of Buddy Bush is my family journey. Buddy Bush is a man wrongly accused of a crime in 1947 in Rich Square, North Carolina. I wanted to tell him story and how life was in the South. It is the book closest to my heart.

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"Impressive."

-- Washington Post
"The Legend of Buddy Bush is wonderfully engaging."

-- Morgan Freeman, actor, director, producer
"Captures and inspires the reader."

-- EBONY
"Bears comparison to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and its sequels."

-- Washington Post
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