It is spring when J.T. Malone, a pharmacist in a small Southern town, learns that he will soon die.
As he tries to accept his illness, his friend, Judge Klein, attempts to prevent the abolition of racial segregation in schools – in his opinion, a scandal that threatens the values of the South!
The judge's grandson, Jester, does not share his views. He struggles to find his own place in the world and seeks the love of Sherman, his grandfather's black assistant. But Sherman feels suffocated by the anger over the discrimination his race endures...
Four heroes, four lives converging at a point of no return, a dramatic conflict that will change everything... Racial discrimination, the generational gap, our insatiable need for love and acceptance, and the moment of moral choice that comes for everyone, in a novel with the insight, subtle irony, and deep compassion of Carson McCullers.
