A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Pat Conroy
Mad Billy
Mrs. Scott
Mary
Quickfellow
Edna
Messenger
Mrs. Sellers
Mr. Ryder
Mrs. Webster
Judge
Mrs. Ryder
Mr. Spaulding
Skeffington
Ronnie
