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N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature | Bayou Folk | Little Altars Everywhere | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The moving story of love in a Cane River community bound by race and class. Famie is a mulatto girl whose ancestors-free blacks-rivaled the white planters in wealth and culture. But on a Louisiana plantation in the 1920s, she is an outcast. An illicit love affair with a white landowner leaves her with a son. She dreams her son will be accepted into white society, but in her struggle to transcend race and class Famie must sacrifice the last links to her past.
About: Daughter of Black slave-owners, Famie finds herself an outcast from both white and Black society when slavery is abolished
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