The story is set in the deep south of america in the 1930 s when the united states was still divided by apartheid , and circles around the adventures of the author and her brother when they were children , and the battle their lawyer father fought for a negro accused of rape . the story was narrated through the clear straight eye of a child and is about a complicated emotive issue of racial injustice and adult prejudice narrated through the clear straight eye of a child 作者又从人与人之间的相互关系,以至群体与社会和国家的互动,反映了香港人在这五十年间的不断改变,不断融汇贯通中西文化的价值观。作者以香港为家,藉本书对这个家作出入木三分的描述,既抒发对香港的深厚情怀,又对香港的多方面演变作出中肯的分析,是少有具历史参考价值的好书。