Within months of the disappearance of an Atlanta philanthropist's plane off the coast of Liberia, Dr. Andrew Barnes' wife announces that she is pregnant with their first child and he is offered the position of medical director for the philanthropist's charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of African-Americans in the impoverished Mississippi Delta. Unlike most black residents of the Delta, who live their entire lives in poverty and despair, Andy Barnes is finishing a fellowship at Duke University after graduating from Harvard Medical School. Over the objections of...