Favorably compared to both Harper Lee and Mark Twain, Pat Cunningham Devoto brings her knowledge of the South to The Summer We Got Saved. Tab and Tina, relatives of a founder of Ku Klux Klan, are whisked away to an interracial Civil Rights school one summer. There, they befriend both a black polio patient and the biracial daughter of a Yankee and a Civil Rights leader. Can the girls be saved from the racist traditions of their Alabama family?