Stumbling upon deadly signs of Southern hoodoo in a decaying Delta mansion, a live-in nurse is pulled into a world of frightening events. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic.

Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world in which feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently prefer men who pick up the tab, where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women who long for marriage that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than forty percent of the...