The bayou is a dark and frightening place. A little girl named Lee, living in Mississippi in 1933, discovers that firsthand when she dives into its murky depths to recover the body of a friend. Underwater, she finds it, but then she sees something more, a person…or maybe an evil spirit. Magical realism gets a new turn in this journey through our southern history of racism and oppression, that's also filled with hope and optimism.

Temujin (later to be called Genghis Khan) was born to the leader of a Mongolian clan with all portents of greatness: a glowing face and fire in his eyes.

A woman goes in search of her father's past, despite the fact that he's reticent to reveal what he went through in World War II. She finds enormous insight into the mind of one member of the Greatest Generation in this nonfiction work, which also explores her own personal life in honest detail.