Description:
Onesie
Delilah is Lilah McAfee’s story, from her birth in 1926 in an Alabama mill
town through three-quarters of a century, against the backdrop of family
and community expectations in a Southland undergoing dramatic social and
economic changes. Throughout her life, Lilah yearns for a loving
relationship with her beautiful and selfish mother, but their fragile
bonds are shattered when in the 1950s Lilah has a romantic encounter with
a black man. Her actions precipitate murder, and she must deal with her
sense of involvement and her suspicions regarding the killer’s identity,
as well as with widening rifts within her family. The events of her life
take her through Dubbed “Onesie” by the Negro midwife, Lilah lives up to
this recognition of her birth order and prediction of predominance, for
she is resoundingly a survivor.
