Her mama is dead, her daddy’s in Angola State Prison, and her Aunt Phyllis, who’s raising her, lives by the Scriptures one minute and The Joy of Sex the next. To top it off, her last name is Head AND she’s in junior high. But twelve and a half year-old Henrietta manages to backsass and finagle her way through the morass of cultural deprivation, religious hypocrisy, and social turbulence that’s 1970s Aitchville, Mississippi, some 80 miles north of the Gulf, with plenty of Valium-laced sweet tea, Riunite on ice, and late-night viewings of Barbra Streisand in “Funny Girl” to make it all go down much sweeter and easier.