The Boarding House

It is the summer of 1927 when freshly-minted college graduate Robert Martin moves to the small Southside Virginia town of Lawrenceville. There, he takes up residence in the boarding house operated by widow Louvenia Hicks with help from her teenage daughter, Laura. Over the course of the next year, Robert is emmeshed in the lives of the Hicks family and his fellow boarders, as well as those of the citizens—Black and white—of the broader community. With humor and pathos, The Boarding House explores the intricate fabric of life of an American town in the days just before the Great Depression.