The Dancin' Man is a family saga for readers who love a multigenerational story. The backdrop is class and money in a rapidly changing south of the 1950s-1980s. It centers on the marriage of working class Ted and moneyed Virginia. Virginia's mother is the matriarch of the family as well as the head of textile company. Her death brings out the best and the worst of the generations and the traditions in transition. What and who will survive?