An engaging and thought-provoking work, led by a well-developed protagonist. – Kirkus Reviews

In early Jim Crow Mississippi, politics could get you killed.

Narcissa Tarver aims to be a survivor. 

Entangled in a vast extended family striving to preserve the privilege it lost to the demise of slavery, Narcissa struggles toward her own sense of worth, first in fairy tales and then in novels.  She eventually confronts the real world in the pages of newspapers, but as her blossoming ambition to become a reporter begins to intersect in startling ways with the shady political career of her older brother Duncan, Narcissa knows that she will have to choose between devotion to family and fidelity to the unpleasant truths she uncovers. Hers is a story of disappointments, conflicted loyalties, and a search for identity in a changing world where questioning white supremacy and male dominance can get a girl in a mess of trouble.

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