Lucas and Dolly Frazier are fraternal twins who live with their grandmother, Gram M., over her Five-and-Dime store in the Depression-era South. Both children are special and different: special in that they each have unexplainable gifts, and different in that Lucas is white and Dolly is Black. When Gram M. becomes ill and dies, the twins are taken to live with their relative, Emil Skinner, on his small hay farm in rural Evergreen, Alabama. Although...