Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams

Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South’s few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the past alive. Harriet’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of mother and daughter Claudia and Layla Hartwell—who plan to turn the property next door into a wedding venue, and host the offensively antebellum-themed wedding of two Hollywood stars. Harriet’s fully prepared to hate Layla Hartwell, but it… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Racism (theme)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Alcohol consumption
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a mother
