The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled healer Minnie Ransom....

\"A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders\" Toni Morrison Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta\"s booming economy when she awakens one summer\"s morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared....