House On Rondo - Debra J Stone

A Young Girl Reckons With The Demolition Of A Black Saint Paul Neighborhood To Make Way For The Interstate In The Early 1960s When Thirteen-year-old Zenobia Has To Leave Her Friends And Spend The Summer At Grandmas While Mama Recovers From A Stroke, Life Seems So Unfair. But Then The Eviction Letters Start Arriving Throughout Her Grandparents Neighborhood, And White Men Chalk Arrows To Mark The Gas And Water Lines, And A World Of Unfairness Unfolds Before Her. Its 1963, And Zenobias Grandparents House On Rondo Avenue In Saint Paul-like All The Homes In This Thriving Black Community-is Targeted For Demolition To Make Way For The Interstate Highway 94.