To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters
A young woman struggling with a sordid past finds that her biggest enemy had larger demons than she did
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noahs Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans