(Paperback)

During the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush of the 1920s, Althea Whiteside and her enigmatic black maid, Graceful, are caught in the relentless currents of family and violence. Their stories unfold against a backdrop of fear, hate, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa race riot of 1921, during which the city's prosperous black section is burned to the ground.

(Paperback, Main)

A compelling, funny and poignant novel about what happens when a family - and an entire community - are forced to confront the difference between right and wrong.