The uplifting story of a Teach for America volunteer in the rural Mississippi Delta has been praised by Robert Coles as "a compelling and important moral witness to education efforts today."

The uplifting story of a Teach for America volunteer in the rural Mississippi Delta has been praised by Robert Coles as "a compelling and important moral witness to education efforts today."

In the Deep Heart's Core is the uplifting story of young Teach for America volunteer who becomes an English teacher in a desperately impoverished African-American high school in the rural Mississippi Delta beset by gang violence, drug abuse, ruptured families and teen pregnancy-but among the sorrow and struggle he finds dignity and hope, and works to bring the nascent intellectual curiosity of his students to full flower.