The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born in South Carolina in the early 1930's. The narrative begins before she is born and intertwines through the complicated yet heart-warming relationship between her mother, who is black and her father, who is white. The book spans Frank Lee's childhood in Harlem, New York and eventual love affair with Theo, a boy who grew up without a clear connection to his own mother, yet yearns for a family that he can call his own, which he finds in Frank Lee.