A teen-aged black farm boy falls in love with a white witch and lands smack dab in the middle of the grandmother of all witch feuds. In racially tense Southern Illinois during the mid 1960s, that’s the easy part.
Being born and raised in the swampy bottoms of Southernmost Illinois, which is also the top of the Lower Mississippi Valley, entitles Eulis S. Morgan to sing the Blues and write Southern Gothic. He can’t sing, but he can write.