In the beginning, Mitchell continually bullies Paul for being multiracial. The book is narrated from Paul's perspective, and quickly introduces his three brothers, his sister, and Mitchell Thomas, a black boy whose father works for Paul's father and who becomes a vital member of the story-line. It describes how Paul's life has been different from that of most freed slaves. The novel begins with Paul-Edward, as a nine-year-old. The dialogue uses the Southern dialect from the 1870s and 1880s. Paul has three entries from Paul's journal, after the main story ends. Paul is the child of a white man and a woman with Black and Native American ancestry. The Land follows the life of Paul-Edward Logan. This was originally the final book in the series before the release of All the Days Past, All the Days to Come in 2020 which continues the story of the Logan family chronologically from the last book, The Road to Memphis set twenty years later. This book won the 2002 Coretta Scott King Author Award and the 2002 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. It is a prequel to the whole series that recounts the life of Cassie Logan's grandfather Paul-Edward as he grows from a nine-year-old boy into a man in his mid-twenties. It is the sixth and penultimate book of the Logan Family saga that began with Song of the Trees (1975). The Land is a novel written by Mildred D.
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