Publisher's Synopsis
This instantly engaging narrative, which takes place in the nineteenth century, tells the story of Thom Sanders, who at five years of age, his Master now dead, is taken from the arms of his grandmother and sold on an auction block in Georgia and brought to Texas. A mere child, he learns to adjust, being sent from place to place and raised by various people, but misses his family, especially his brothers. And as a grown man, even though slavery has ended, he has to adhere to the authority of the 'white man'. Thom's search for his family puts him in irreversible situations and is full of heartache, pain and even violence. but he never gives up.
