Children of Dust

In 2000, as Seth Anderson researches his family history, he discovers an unexpected story and "contained within it lies a larger story that might speak not just to Southern history but beyond it." In the late 1800s in rural Alabama, Melinda Anderson, tended by Annie-Mae, a part-Choctaw midwife, struggles to give birth to her tenth child. When the infant dies, just hours after birth, suspicion falls upon two women—Betsy, Annie Mae's daughter and the mixed-race mistress of Melinda's husband, ...