Meet the unforgettable Lee Cotton．Lee is a blackboy born white—skinned in segregated Eureka，Mississippi，in 1950．Asif that weren’t trouble enough，he has also inherited the ability to hear lesvoix--spirits--from his Mambo grandmother．By the age of twenty he hasfallen in love with a Klansman’s daughter，been kicked senseless and left fordead on a northbound freight train，and gotten drafted into a apsych-opscorps in Nevada．Before he returns to Mississippi，he will experience upclose and personal the women's liberation movement and the dawn of theT PRbjan Nation.