A Visitation of Angels

Set in the 1920s, the story follows Elizabeth Maslow, an educated and unconventional woman in Mission, Alabama. Defying societal norms, she remains unmarried and raises a child with webbed hands and feet, prompting fear and suspicion in a community steeped in superstition and religious repression. Elizabeth's existence challenges the town's rigid definitions of womanhood, marking her as a figure of both danger and defiance in an oppressive environment.