The story is narrated by Birdie, the oldest girl in the Boyer family, who has just moved to town intent on wrestling crops out of Florida's sandy soil. While the neighbors let their cattle graze free, the Boyers feed their cattle so they don't wander off, and fence their land so hogs don't eat or trample their crops. Revenge is taken. Crops get trampled. Animals are killed as warnings.
Fever sets in and death hovers.
The ending, in which the neighbors miraculously make peace, is also way too pat to be convincing. See what other families have said. Inc. All rights reserved.