21 Yerger Street

In April, 1934, an unnamed 14 year-old girl is raped in the janitorial closet of a school in Jackson. Mississippi, an event that shapes naive Tom Anderson's year of discovery. Banks have failed and money is as scarce as jobs. Tom's mother, thankful to have the additional income, does not bother to ask for references from the family of three who rent the lone-vacant house next door. Over the summer months, with no school friends nearby. Tom befriends Pazzy Kruger, the daughter of his strange and reclusive new neighbors. who also happens to be 14. Against the historical background of the Great Depression. Tom is swept unknowingly into a world of prostitution, drug abuse, depravity, rape and, possibly, murder ... right next door at 21 Yerger Street.