This book, like others offered by Sandra Walker, brings to light the lives of African Americans living in the Jim Crow deep south in the early 1900s. In it, the reader finds themselves in a wagon traveling with a young family making their way to their new home in south Mississippi. Enroute, they witness a terrifying scene that imbues a sense of helplessness that the young wife, Ada, struggles to overcome for the rest of her life. They press forward, making friends along the way, and settle on a small plot of land to call their own. There begins a more interesting life which includes infidelity, gossip, and ghosts.
