The Unicorn Woman

A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because hes a wise guy. But underneath that surface, hes a man on a quest: looking for religion, looking for meaning, looking for love.Returning from the Second World War not to a heros welcome, but to the discrimination of the Jim Crow laws, Buddy stumbles across the Unicorn Woman, a carnival sideshow with a horn growing from her forehead, whose strange beauty he cant forget.As he drifts across the South, from Kentucky to Memphis, Buddy encounters a dazzling array of almost mythic characters: circus barkers, topiary trimmers, landladies who provide shelter and plenty of advice for their all-Black clientele, proto feminists and bigots - dreaming all the while of the unforgettable Unicorn Woman herself.