Taffy

Taffy Bledsoe Freeman doesn't need her gift of second sight to know her mockery of a marriage to a man twice her age is manifested misery. That's why she's chosen to flee to the Windy City in search of liberty. She needs one thing, however, before leaving: to retrieve the child her husband banished to her parents' custody. That requires a brief trip down home to the small, all-Black southern town of Bledsoe where "ain't nothing white 'cept milk and teeth," a press-and-curl costs a quarter, ...