There were two events in particular that had a lasting effect on the life of David Frost, Jr.: "Watching my parents make moonshine in our back yard in a wash pot," he says, "and listening to my parents tell the story of how the Peterson boy was lynched here in Eufaula. My parents would tell it like it had just happened." In this compelling account of his life as an African American in Eufaula, Alabama, Frost illuminates the strange world of the...