
Instead, she has memories riddled with half-truths, stories heard in fits and starts, a family history from a family that doesn't know its own past. Helene Strickland, daughter of Lafayette County, Arkansas, and lately of the Northeast, doesn't have an answer.

"Who're your people, girl?" It's the song of the South, the big question, persistent and unforgiving. A dazzling first novel about four generations of fear and longing in the deep South
