The World is Full of Champions spans more than thirty years from the 60s to the late 90s in race-torn Philadelphia as two proud Black familiesone wealthy, the other notconfront major change when tragedy strikes and the daughter of the working-class Smythe family falls in love with the son of the affluent Whitman family. Georgia Smythe and her mother live on the rough side of town. As a young girl, she loses her father in a tragic mining accident, but overcomes her loss to become a thoughtful and attractive young woman. She falls in love with Lawrence, the handsome son of the Whitman family for whom her mother works as a maid. The Whitmans, recovering from the death of Lawrences brother in a hit-and-run car accident, have other ideas about whom their remaining son should marry and are concerned about how such a liaison will affect their social position. How will the two families deal with Georgia and Lawrences relationship and the unintended divulging of a closely guarded secret?
- | Author: J. H. Sullivan
- | Publisher: Post Hill Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1637588585
- | ISBN-13: 9781637588581