Cuentos: From The South To The City
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The American Dream demanded a journey. The city asked for a price.
In 1960s Texarkana, the King family is ruled by Mary Lee Payton, who runs a laundromat as a front for the brothel upstairs. Beth endures the worst of her mother's cruelty, her only escape a promise from Wilbur Parks, a scarred Korean War veteran.
Trading the segregated South for a fresh start, Beth and Wilbur join the great Exodus to California, raising their abundance of children in the promised land. Wilbur finds respect as ...






















