In this surprising novel, Sunni Mercer offers a compelling story of resilience during an era when struggle was collective and culture unforgiving. After freeing herself from an abusive husband, Thelma Fillman resolves to provide a safe home for her boys. Like thousands of single mothers during the 1930s, she navigates the Great Depression and Jim Crow oppression while endeavoring to hold her small family together. Thelma's ingenuity adds intrigue to a journey fraught with challenge and threat. She experiences cycles of elation and anguish, discrimination and friendship, love and loss. In a painful twist of fate, Thelma must make the ultimate choice. Her decision initiates an inspiring degree of courage and hope that puts her resourcefulness to the test. Thelma will transfix the reader with its suspenseful survival story.