Author Muhammad chronicles the social conditions of a "dead" people from the aftermath of slavery up through the Great Depression. As an omniscient narrator and professional counselor who is steeped in understanding of human and social cycles, the chronicle is then used as a trajectory of said conditions in futuristic America.
The book germinated from whispered historical rumors Muhammad was determined to investigate. Muhammad traced a paternal lineage cluster of her paternal tribe to a tiny cabin where the Johnsons lived in Escambia County, Florida. As such, their early 1900’s hidden roots, tragedies, and triumphs became the baseline of a spellbinding, unputdownable love story.
In the midst of the captivating love story, the Black Experience is firmly placed, providing a reference for the holes in history, chapters omitted in contemporary education, and a theoretical framework to explain varied realities.
Because Author Muhammad so skillfully pieces together causes for the embedded rape, infidelity, domestic violence, and murder, those historical tragedies are used to establish counsel, humor, and wit for today’s troubled times and stressful outlook.