Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an eighty-year-old woman embarks on a book tour.
Content Note
Contents includes: Rose: Beans and Cornbread -- Fisherman -- Books on the Bayous. Merle Henry: Trapped -- Playing Hooky. Annabeth: Fairy Tale -- Squealers. Kyle: Summer Job -- Missing Harry. Rose: Been Down That Road.