num_pages: 304
description: Nineteen years old broke and effectively an orphan Magnolia doesnt have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account by her predatory landlord by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job a mysterious slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolias luck around. He offers her a lucrative modeling job at his familys funeral home. Magnolia accepts. But despite things looking up Magnolias problems fatten along with her wallet. When Cottons requests become increasingly weird Magnolia discovers theres a lot more at stake than just her rent.Sharp as a belted knife this sly social commentary cuts straight to the bone revealing the aftermath of the American plantation and what it means to be poor Black and a woman in the God fearing south.
language: English
title: House of Cotton
publisher: Flatiron Books