"One beautiful man. His story is true."
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Pat Conroy

Mad Billy

Mrs. Scott

Mary

Quickfellow

Edna

Messenger

Mrs. Sellers
Mr. Ryder
Mrs. Webster
Judge
Mrs. Ryder
Mr. Spaulding
Skeffington
