Kirjahaku

DeEtta lives much of her life carrying two huge secrets, and praying they will never be revealed. DeEtta was born in a small Mississippi Delta town, the daughter of a poor Mississippi sharecropper. Growing up to womanhood along with her best friend, Julia Ann, they learn to endure the ever-daunting pressures brought on by the systemic Jim Crow laws during the pre-civil rights era, and the violence and injustices they caused. A big part of that was dealing with the White farm owner Mr. Shegogg and his unscrupulous son. Now as an older woman affectionately called Mama Dee, DeEtta returns to her not-so-beloved Southern hometown, accompanying her son, Stefan, and his family when he inherits the house and land where their ancestors worked and lived for generations. But being in that house again, DeEtta is forced to recall and relive her traumatic past. Will her dark, explosive secrets come to light now she is back in the place where it all transpired...? Mama Dee is a story about the strength of family, the love for friends, and the unpredictable paths that life sometimes forces you to take.

In a small town in rural Mississippi in the 1960s, Willie flirts with the beautiful Althea at a bar and gives her his cigarette lighter as a memento of their meeting. Little does he know a piece of his soul is attached to it. The evil woman casts a spell on him, which sinks Willie into a mysterious coma. While visiting him in the hospital, his wife Lynn learns that a boy, David, got sick around the same time and has the same baffling symptoms. David worked at a gas station that was on the same road Willie traveled down the night he got sick, so Lynn and David's mother, Madeline, go there to investigate. While following an odd creature, they are led to a small house deep in the woods. There, they encounter a strange old woman and discover a cavern packed with jars and bottles of potions and powders. Could they be clues? Lynn recalls an old story about a couple who were very much in love, but the woman was killed. The man went to see a spiritualist, Ms. Irma, who brought his beloved wife back to life in exchange for his gold wedding ring. Lynn learns Ms. Irma is still alive and convinces Madeline they should go see her. Ms. Irma tells them they are dealing with a curse, and if they bring her all the jars and bottles from the cavern, she will free their loved ones from the spell. But can she really do it? Or is she just a crazy old lady...?