"Angel is a private chef for the Harrison's, one of the most powerful Black families on Martha's Vineyard. Impossibly supercilious Jillian Harrison often spends the entire summer on the island, while her husband Irvin and their twenty-nine-year-old daughter Norma commute from Was...
It's 1899 and Mathilda, at fourteen is forced to marry an older fisherman who reveals there is no home, and no money. An Ojibwe family on Manitoulin Island helps her survive years of hardship and torment.