Magnolia Hawks grows up aboard the Cotton Blossom, the floating theatre run by her genial father Captain Andy and her formidable mother Parthy. She falls for the gambler Gaylord Ravenal, follows him to the uncertain fortunes of Chicago, and raises a daughter, Kim, who will take the family’s love of the stage to New York.
The 1926 novel behind the Kern and Hammerstein musical, its treatment of race reflecting its time even as it confronts the colour line. Download the free EPUB.