Summary

The prologue starts out with an omniscient narrator declaring that all stories being with blood during birth, but very few stories end in blood. This story, the narrator says, begins with five little girls born in blood. The girls grow up to be respectable southern housewives. Their story, the narrator claims, will also end in blood

After the prologue, the definition of the word housewife is given, and then the first section, “Cry The Beloved Country” begins. It was 1988 and Patricia Campbell was getting ready to attend a book club meeting she was woefully underprepared for. She had been tasked as the discussant for this month’s book, but she had not gotten past the book’s first page. She had meant to read the book, but her children, Blue and Korey, had been acting up. Her mother-in-law, Miss...