Toad in the Mud

What Happens When You Wake Up 65 Years Late-<br><br>And Are No Longer a Second-Class Citizen? <br><br>In 1932 Emma Mae Brown-a young pregnant Southern black woman-thought she was signing up for some quick cash. The task seemed simple: Go to sleep for a couple weeks as part of a government-funded research project. It was all part of a secret contingency plan designed to keep key Americans alive for an indefinite period of time without undue hardship on the body-like frogs hibernating in the mud during long drought periods. <br><br>But policies shift. Projects get canceled. And what was supposed to last five weeks ended up taking 65 years. <br><br>Fast forward to 1997. Some young medical students are about to discover what remains of this long-forgotten experiment in an old abandoned research facility in Los Angeles County. Their shocking finding will cause a sensation-and rewrite the rules of science. <br><br>Now a resuscitated Emma Mae Brown finds herself in a very different place at a very different time. After a long rehabilitation she's faced with a culture and a lifestyle she knows nothing about. Then there's the challenge of raising children-fathered by a man she had met only the day before the experiment. And when her 1930s Jim Crow-era survival skills clash with the 1990s the government decides to get involved-and tries to take away the one thing that Emma knows she can count on...