Hear the Dirt Sing

A fiery cross and a cadre of hooded thugs can't scare the Robinson sisters away from their Louisiana land. The five unmarried sisters grapple in a man's world where a woman's place is inside the home, not behind a plow on a cotton farm. When Etta May Robinson stumbles over a dead body in their field, a man she knows and fears, the investigation leads to an unexpected reckoning. She has secrets – truths not spoken of in the genteel Southern society of the early 1900s.

Journalist Penny Robinso...