Anjuelle Floyd
ASIN: B00I35FT6Y
Publisher: NOJ Publications
Pages: 402
December 28th, 1967. America has taken a respite from the heated protests and firebombing that engulfed the nation the previous summer.Martin Luther King, Jr. has begun laying out plans for his Poor People’s Campaign.Florina Gavin Austin, two days married, has moved across state to Poinsettia, North Carolina where she will begin a new life as Mrs. Redmond Austin.On approach to the house where she and her husband will live, Florina spies a woman sitting on the steps and smoking a cigarette.“You must be Redmond’s new wife,” the woman says. “All of Poinsettia’s been talking about you.” Failing to introduce herself, the woman stands, flicks cigarette buts behind the shrubbery, and proceeds into what will become Florina’s new home. The woman’s uncanny knowledge of the space that Florina will inhabit with her new husband leaves Florina feeling more than ill at ease. Following the benediction ...