How do we know ourselves? How can we be seen for who we truly are? How do we find redemption in a world that conspires to separate us? Leaf Seligman explores these and other questions in a collection of linked stories from the midway of a carnival traveling through the Jim Crow South. 
From the Midway: Unfolding Stories of Redemption and Belonging traces the journeys of people who travel with a carnival, including the owners, the oddities, and the African American laborers charged with tending them.