Description: A heart-stopping story, written with grace and lucidity, located at the dead center of Southern mythology and an intransigent national trauma. In a small community deep in the Mississippi Delta, black and white alike struggle to coexist as the era of Reconstruction gives way to Jim Crow.
Review Quotes: "A powerful tale . . . a skillful interweaving of complicated relationships to family and history." -The Washington Post Book World
"A compelling look at moral courage. . . . The place, events, and emotions are so authentic, it's hard to believe the story is fiction." -USA Today
"Invites comparison with Faulkner's greatest novels." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Perceptive, finely wrought . . . captures post-Reconstruction Mississippi, caught between the promise of progress and a lament for the antebellum order." -Vogue