Laura Hunter
As a timid biracial girl growing up in Sweetwater, Alabama during the 1960s, Margaret AnnOdom’s childhood was all but pleasant. Constantly targeted by her peers due to her differenttexture of hair, and struggling to live up to her M’dear’s expectations, Margaret’s life becomesworse when Claire Whitehurst appears at her home insisting she is due for a sudden medicalexamination and a series of injections. Thinking her life couldn’t get any worse, her entirechildhood spirals out of control as she faces depression and struggles to learn the value of her lifeamongst those intent on treating her differently.
