by Diane Chamberlain
Picture a small southern town fifty years ago. Fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is a tenant on a tobacco farm. Unlike other young girls her age, she is the head of household. Ivy cares for her grandmother, older sister and baby nephew. With her grandmother's aging, her older sister's mental illness, her ba...
Powerful and thought provoking. A story primarily told by two girls/women living in North Carolina in the early sixties. As a woman this story really pulls you. Eugenics and sterilization was used and practiced during this time to prevent pregnancy in women and fertility in men deemed “unfit”. Howev...
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