In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Lancaster's paradise-a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farm-until Lancaster's attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and her only companions. The events that follow Lancaster's death change all three women for life. Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, Kind One is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in antebellum America.
"This compact but reverberant 19th-century tale tracks a circle of hard-luck souls whose collective tears could fill a dry well... Hunt passes the narration among the principle characters in woozily nonlinear fashion, lending a range of textures to this antebellum melodrama."
