This was my first book read by Alice but I have several I want to read and am kicking myself for sleeping on them. 

Oh dear Eliza! She has to have the toughest spirit I've seen in a character in a long time. Growing up in a time of segregation in the South, she defies the "norms" of the time and becomes best friends with Covey, a Black girl. She wants to see the family farm in her hands after tragedy and is fighting for it, even decades later. 

I loved that she told her story to her granddaughter and grandniece. I love that this is being split into 2 books and can't wait to see where the story goes from where it left off. The novel was rich with detail that I felt I was right in that southern low county with them.