Color of Horses

About the Book

The book is based in the 1940s after the depression and during the middle of the Great War. It’s about a black girl, raped by her mom’s boyfriend, got pregnant, put out having to make it on her own, and ended up killing her uncle for an attempt to harm her child. She runs away from Chicago to Louisiana where she finds work as a maid to a prejudiced old white woman, a former schoolteacher, with dementia, where this woman meets the girl’s daughter and, seeing how smart she is, decides to work with her. In working with her, her brain begins to come back, along with other things happening, and the three of them become united.

About the Author

Antonio L. Coney is a middle-aged man, born in McComb, Mississippi, in 1970, raised in a home where his mother was abused physically by his dad. He went to college at Mary Holmes College and Mississippi Valley State University and majored in communications. He became a gospel artist and writer, also writing two spiritual books. This is his first fictional book inspired by all the women who had dared to come forth during the Me Too Movement!