"In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to readjust to their fashionable apartment in the City in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere--inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots--who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother"--Back cover.
A collection of short fictional stories from twentieth-century African-American author Jeffery Renard Allen, and features selections en titled "Dog Tags," "Toilet Training," The Green Apocalypse," "It Shall Be Again," and others.
