Publisher's Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award winner Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) delivers the stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey set over the course of the Civil War.Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy Hero a slave must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be yet another empty promise. As his decision brings him face-to-face with a nation at war with itself the loved ones Hero left behind debate whether to
