Set in pre-Civil Rights Mississippi, and inspired by his Mississippi childhood, Odell tells the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida ́ one wealthy and white and the other poor and black ́ who have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another.
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