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"It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm; a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not; charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a…

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Editions

16 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2017
    Algonquin Books · 368 pages · 9781616208417
  • Ebook · English · 2010
    Algonquin Books · 9781565126374
  • Paperback · English · 2009
    Algonquin paperbacks · 9781565126770
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Random House Publishing Group · 9781407006079
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Algonquin Books · 336 pages · 9781565125698
  • Other · English · 2017
    Penguin Random House · 336 pages · 9781786090232
Race relationsAfrican American veteransFictionWorld War, 1939-1945Farm lifeVeteransAfrican AmericansWorld war, 1939-1945, fiction