
Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up...

Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in...

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Whitbread Award finalist Christopher Wilson brings to life the remarkable character of Lee Cotton, the boy with a white exterior (thanks to his Icelandic father) and a black interior (thanks to his mother). Lee develops a new skin for every situation. From a black boy in Eureka,...
