All Aunt Hagars Children Author:Edward P. Jones The book turns an unfliching eye to the men, women and children caught between the old ways of the south and the temptations that await them in the city, peole with emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether country folk or peole with education behind them. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncer... more »tain, the cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years.« less