"Segregation Spelled Backwards" is a historical fiction in reverse, telling the story of a forbidden friendship of young African-American teenager, Marilyn Augustine, and German immigrant, Maximillian Einghardt.
In this novel the roles of blacks and whites are switched, in which whites experience the racism and prejudice blacks have endured throughout
history, and vice-versa. Marilyn and Max must choose between pride in their racial differences and what could be an unbreakable bond.