Audio Book Description:
Among the inhabitants of Dogtown isBlack Ruth, an African woman who dressesas a man and works as a stone mason; MrsStanley, an imperious madam whosegrandson, sammy, comes of age in her rural brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of a very strange aunt; andCornelius Finson, a freed slavewhose race denies him everything. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonelywho nonetheless builds a life for herself and inspires those around her tobecome more generous and tolerant themselves.