Scott's collection is set in the community of Cross River, a fictional southern community established after a successful slave revolt. I remember a rather unusual underground railroad re-enactment and the last story is set at the local college where a professor makes up his own course at another man's urging, and it doesn't go well. I wish I could remember the name of the course.

Anyway, I finished this one a couple months ago, and it took me a while to get through. I remember that I liked the earlier stories better, and that the last story was better in print. It is told in slides and other formats in the book if I remember correctly.