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This book focuses on a black family that was almost torn apart due to poverty, drugs, and racial discrimination. It uses poetic prose to comb through their life history, sing out the unspeakable pain in their hearts, and reveal the hidden historical truth of the American South. Yoyo is a thirteen-year-old boy of mixed black and white race. He lives with his sister Michaela, his grandfather, and his mother in a small town in Mississippi. Her mother, Leonie, was often away from home and became addicted to drugs in order to escape the grief of losing her late brother. On Yoyo's birthday, Leonie planned to take her two siblings to the state prison to pick up their white father, Michael, from prison. On this day, a group of people traveled on the country road. Mississippi's past and present were intertwined, blurring the boundaries between reality and magic. They set off with hope, but the dark past quietly followed them home...