New York: Viking, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's award winning first novel, set in the early years of the twentieth century and one which "opens a window on the little-known history of African American homesteaders and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the spirit that built America." Longlisted for the Orange Prize, a finalist for the Orange Award for New Writers, and won the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters' Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022014.