Description: Straightforwardly recounting his early life, rising above bitterness and pain, Ely Green gives his readers an astoundingly honest and poignant portrait of a young man trying to come to terms with race relations in the early twentieth-century South.
Brief description: BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of several books, including Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South, Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners, and The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination.
Review Quotes: Fairskinned, Green struggled with the particular circumstances of his life--he was neither black nor white. This is the story of his life in Sewanee, from his childhood to age eighteen, when, threatened by a lynch mob, he left Tennessee for Texas and a new life.-- "Washington Post"