Mamba, shrewd and resourceful, works her way into a white Charleston household to secure a future for her daughter Hagar and granddaughter Lissa. DuBose Heyward follows them through the city’s streets, the waterfront and the country beyond, alongside the young white man whose fortunes are tied to theirs, as Lissa’s gift for music points to a different life.
A white Southern writer’s sympathetic but period-bound portrait of Black Charleston, by the author of Porgy. Download the free EPUB.