In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious teenager from Philadelphia, went as a scholarship student to a formerly all-white, all-male (and still unapologetically elite) school in New Hampshire. She was determined to suceed-without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role | Black Ice by Lorene Cary, Paperback | Indigo Chapters