Oh what a beautiful and tragic book! 

Sara is a young mother who flees to Memphis  with her young infant, Lebanon, in tow to Mama Sugar's boarding house. There are allusions to who the father is and if you read Saving Ruby King, you know who.

Sara is a hard worker but she's a mother who often lets others help with her baby. She feels detached from him though she never neglects him. She falls in love with a teacher at the elementary school and things are bliss for awhile..... Until tragedy strikes.

I loved Sara as a character. I feel she had post-partum depression though this probably wasn't widely known in this era (I'm not sure). I felt for her and all the stuff she went through. The ending had me in tears and I don't really understand the motivation but it also felt a bit open-ended.