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Narrator Gladys Cailiff is 11 years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, ugly. Miss Sophistication Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field outings, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her 10-volume level group of The Thousand Nights and a Nights. The true trouble starts when she decides to revive the total annual town happening as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Pass up Spivey and her project enhance the lives of everyone around her: Gladys' more mature brother Push (with his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs' DARK-COLORED neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the main element to a multi-colored, hidden history of the South. Populated by memorable characters-including three impressive camels-The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia trips a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris-and back again-in an entrancing feat of storytelling.Mary Helen Stefaniak is the prize-winning author of The Turk and My Mother and Self Storage as well as other Experiences. She lives in Omaha and Iowa City.
