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Eight-year-old Arletta Johnson is very good at keeping secrets, even from her mother. Growing up in the early 1900s in rural, backcountry Louisiana, she suffers an extremely violent rape by two white men, one of them a prominent banker. Her mother, a voodoo-practicing Mambo, leaves Arletta alone too often in their isolated cabin, and the girl is repeatedly assaulted. After a spirit ancestor gives her the strength to fight back and she defends herself by slashing her att...Log In or Sign Up to Read More