"Growing up in Minneapolis, Mary Winstead listened to her father's captivating tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a child, she visited her southern kin, and her nostalgia for that world and its people later compelled her to collect her father's stories for her own children. But when Winstead's research into family history led her to the Freedom Summer of 1964, she came upon a story that hadn't been told.".

"At a point in American history when the South is successfully bringing the perpetrators of decades-old civil rights murders to justice, Winstead discovers that one of her relations was involved in - indeed, is alleged to have masterminded - the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.

When the family she loves closes ranks around its secrets, Winstead is faced with a wrenching choice: between her loyalty to family and her desire to break the silence."--BOOK JACKET.