Born with Downs Syndrome, Hope Fulona Madison, embarks on a lesson only life can give during the 1860s. Feelings discovered but unknown, Hope, struggles to see the evil and prejudice around when a runaway gets brought onto her families plantation to be enslaved. In realizing she can get the one person she loves in grave danger, Hope, finds herself trying to escape rules of hopelessness in search of happiness. Reluctantly, Hope begins to see the people around her are evil and trifling so. Treating her no better than those they enslave and murder. All she want is to be loved and accepted as a human being. To understand what it is her body feels. Hope fantasies of love soon becomes a whirlwind when her father, once thought to be gone for good, returns to his family land with orders from a changed heart. Hope then finds herself trying to escape the evils of racist, prejudice, and hopeless romance by following her loss travels of love. This is a stunning debut by novelist H.K. Collier that provides a deep depiction of what life may have been for someone embracing abnormality in the late decades of the nineteenth century.
