Accurate depiction of the times and lives on the outer islands of America, outside the mainlife.

At age 24, Pat Conroy left his high school teaching position in Beaufort , South Carolina, to teach the 18 black students on nearby Yamicraw Island. His idealism and perseverance in spite of hair-raising extremes of conditions and personalities, make for a spell-binding memoir. Conroy's story is laugh out loud funny, and deeply disturbing in the black vs. white cultures of the south in 1969. The issues raised are still unfortunately alive and newsworthy today.