Headed for an ivory-tower career in academia, Patricia Ellis Kendall instead finds herself launched into a half-century of unsought adventures, relentlessly orchestrated by her yearning for the Something Bigger she intuits but cannot see. In the course of Pat's zigzagging path from darkness into Light, she must protect her family from the Klan in the deeply segregated South; discover what it means to live on the wrong side of a color bar; narrowly...