The Antic Creedoolies IS about love. Louis Custis Lee, a very wise black man descended from Jefferson’s and Custises of Virginia, raises seven white and part-white children as siblings in Christian County from 1920 to post-Vietnam. It is a desperate time calling for intelligence, humor, and a willingness to seize any advantage in every situation. Through three teenage pregnancies, a murder, a depression, and three wars he holds them together with care and tough love. They become war heroes, farmers, Peace Corps volunteers, businessmen-successful, loving adults with a sense of family. Like him.
