In 1946 Regina Robinchard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, wor
king for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to i
nvestigate the case of a young black soldier whose body had been found floating
in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal. For Reggie, justice is not the o
nly draw to this case. The letter is signed by the reclusive M.P. Calhoun, autho
r of one of the most banned books in the country, a book Regie loved as a child,
about the friendship between three children, black and white, a magical forest
- and a murder. Regie has just three weeks in the South to investigate. But once
down in Mississippi, amid the intoxicating landscape of cotton fields and lush
plantations, Reggie not only finds herself further away from New York that she h
ad ever imagined, but walking directly into M.P. Calhoun's book, a place where m
ore than one type of justice exists.
