"Though the women are as different as water and wine?Icey is feisty, hot-tempered, and impulsive, while Tee Wee is more submissive and disciplined?both are driven by a passionate determination to give their children a better life. Through trying times, they are the pillars, fierce and resilient; yet they celebrate life with a love of food, music, and family that makes even the most traumatic moments endurable. The illicit love between Tee Wee?s daughter Crow and the white landowner?s son Browder; the heartbreaking death of one of Icey?s children, for which she will blame herself; the murder trial of Tee Wee?s youngest son which threatens to tear apart not just their family but the entire town?all these events are interwoven with occasions of joy, including Crow?s fulfillment of her lifelong dream and Tee Wee?s own hard-fought success."--Publisher description.
"Living and working side-by-side on the rural Southern farm belonging to their white employers, Tee Wee and Icey forge a bond based on their shared servitude and their equality painful pasts."
""Though the women are as different as water and wine?Icey is feisty, hot-tempered, and impulsive, while Tee Wee is more submissive and disciplined?both are driven by a passionate determination to give their children a better life. Through trying times, they are the pillars, fierce and resilient; yet they celebrate life with a love of food, music, and family that makes even the most traumatic moments endurable. The illicit love between Tee Wee?s daughter Crow and the white landowner?s son Browder; the heartbreaking death of one of Icey?s children, for which she will blame herself; the murder trial of Tee Wee?s youngest son which threatens to tear apart not just their family but the entire town?all these events are interwoven with occasions of joy, including Crow?s fulfillment of her lifelong dream and Tee Wee?s own hard-fought success."--Publisher description."@en
""Though the women are as different as water and wine?Icey is feisty, hot-tempered, and impulsive, while Tee Wee is more submissive and disciplined?both are driven by a passionate determination to give their children a better life. Through trying times, they are the pillars, fierce and resilient; yet they celebrate life with a love of food, music, and family that makes even the most traumatic moments endurable. The illicit love between Tee Wee?s daughter Crow and the white landowner?s son Browder; the heartbreaking death of one of Icey?s children, for which she will blame herself; the murder trial of Tee Wee?s youngest son which threatens to tear apart not just their family but the entire town?all these events are interwoven with occasions of joy, including Crow?s fulfillment of her lifelong dream and Tee Wee?s own hard-fought success." --Publisher description."
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