Janet Burroway

Dana, the widow of a senator, sells her home in Pennsylvania and retraces her roots in the South, where she reconnects with Cassius Huston, but after being threatened by Cassius's African-American family, Dana flees to the Gulf Coast where she finally finds herself in a place and culture she never could have anticipated.

When four million wasps fly into their village, the citizens of Itching Down devise a way of getting rid of them.