While attending Harvard Buisness School, doing America's Next Top Model and everything else on her plate, Tyra Banks made time to come out with a novel geared to young adult readers.

History

The story depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War.