Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands In the orange-blossomed-scented spring of 1951, Reesa McMahon is awakened in the night to discover that the local Klan has murdered her friend and mentor, 19-year-old Marvin Wiley. Reesa's painful search to make sense of her town's bigotry will pave the way for her rite of passage into adulthood and the country's painful steps toward justice. Full description