This book is a coming of age story of Lily a young white girl who's been abandoned by her mother and is now living with her hateful father (T.Ray) and a black housekeeper named Rosaleen. It's set in the South in 1964, the year the Civil Rights Act was passed and it is definitely a story of busting out of the old ways and into uncertain new territory. It contains an integrationist-based fantasy which seems highly implausible at best, but realism is not the point of this book. Rather, the voice and spirit of this young girl and her coming to terms with a complicated world are what it's all about. I laughed out loud in certain parts, while other parts made me think hard about my own beliefs. This is a book well worth reading.
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