Description: A descendant of the Economie's community, author Fatima Shaik has constructed a meticulously detailed nonfiction narrative that reads like an epic novel.
Review Quotes:
Journalist and novelist Shaik blows the dust off the ancient records of an African American society, revealing a forgotten past.... A lively, readable story that nicely complicates the view of racial and ethnic relations in the South of old.
-- "Kirkus, starred review"