An Antebellum Oz

Follow the Yellow Railroad...

This Southern Gothic romance uses the folk tales and frightful history of the Old South to create a lyrical inversion of the beloved classic.

Six young friends - half freeborn, half enslaved - live together on a Mississippi farm. When a hurricane whisks them away to the land of Oz, they find the Scarecrow lynched for learning to read, the Tin Man twisted into a Klansman, and the bloodhound Lion hunting runaways. To wake up from this world of deception and forbidden love, Dorothy and her friends will uncover the dark secret at the heart of Oz.

Fans of magical realism and audacious reimaginings like Gregory Maguire's Wicked will be spellbound by this astonishing book, one that establishes Joseph Eldredge as a Faulkner for today.