A mulatto slave girl is abused by her white sisters on a southern plantation. A fearful, brutal account from the end of the age, as told by Dixie Charlemagne, a slave raised by a white widow in the antebellum south. Abused from early childhood, Dixie’s voice is a model of childlike simplicity, erupting from a wellspring of neverending truth and revelation, from behind the walls of cultured civility.
On the eve of the Civil War, the beautiful, kind hearted Dixie is tormented by sisters Delilah and Debra, whose treatment of the young woman hearkens from a lifetime of cruelty. Though protected in part by her wealthy, possessive white mother Laura Charlemagne, Dixie’s secret life on the plantation is fear and pain, from the pre-modern mother-daughter dynamic uncovered. Dixie’s life with her mother and two sisters eventually whirls into the unthinkable, in a world headed towards an apocalypse, at the end of time and human history.
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