Set in Mobile, Alabama, "Gulf Stream," the 1930 novel by Marie Stanley (Marie Layet Sheip), is an important part of Alabama s literary heritage. A stunning first person performance by a gifted woman novelist, it is the work of Alabama social history, of Alabama women s writing, of the development of realistic Alabama fiction, and most telling, a work about the complexities of race.It is at once the story of a white mixed-race woman in a black world and the story of a black mixed-race woman seeking forbidden love in a white world."