Reading Dawn Day-Quinn’s Silent Ties took me back to my teenage years growing up in the South. Her chilling depiction of the socio-political climate in any town Alabama in the 40s and 50s is accurate, poignant, and heart-wrenching. Characters are cleverly and thoroughly developed to provide an authenticity rarely seen for a first-time author. While the subject matter of the book seems autobiographical at times, it is clearly a story of one young woman’s coming of age in a South not yet ready for racial equality, kindness, or justice. A breakthrough novel with twists and turns I never saw coming. Historical fiction at its best. ~ Linda Young, Principal, Eagle Eye Editors, LLC