The novel follows the life of Red McCray, a 16-year-old girl during the 1920s. She is trapped on a family farm near the frontier town of Belle Glade, Florida because she is the only person who puts food on the family table. She is trapped in a family with an alcoholic father and withdrawn mother, and she is the only person willing to protect her younger sister from the father
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