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In Bainbridge, Alabama, eight-year-old John Gallatin McMillan III has been the center of his mother's world, cloistered and pampered, until she unexpectedly dies. Recinded by his one remaining relative, his mother's sister, John soon learns that the new home awaiting him in Lower Peach Tree is a run-down tenant farm in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. There he is thrust into a life alien to everything he has ever known, working extended hours in the fields for his violent, alcoholic uncle.As John fights for his survival, he involves identify with the struggles of the poor blacks he encounters, and imagines that his salvation lies in escape to Chicago, just like they feel that their own survival depends upon going north to a new life. Instead, a twist of fate brings him to the Bend, a black settlement that has been a refuge for outcasts. Here John finds himself in the center of the brutal confrontation between blacks and whites that will foreshadow the historic struggle about to sweep the country.A robust drama of prejudice and lost innocence, indomitable courage, and the trick corners of an child's heart, Out of the Night that Covers Me is a testament to Pat Cunningham Devoto's extraordinary talent.
