“As the Civil Rights movement is brewing in Montgomery, Alabama, a segregationist senator and the no-nonsense state librarian clash over the content of a children’s book about bunny rabbits. Meanwhile, a reunion of childhood friends, an African American man and a woman of white privilege, provides a private counterpoint to the public events swirling in the state capital. Political foes, star-crossed lovers, and one feisty children’s author inhabit a Deep South of the imagination that brims with