![]() So he filled it with my mother’s things – jewelry, crystal, china, beautiful and delicate laces and silks from around the world – so that I might have my old home within the new, a piece of my past for the future. ![]() He was a pragmatic man, unsure of what to give a motherless child, a girl no less, on the most special day of my life. My father filled this chest with things he felt I’d need for marriage. This is all that exists of me before I met my husband. Featured on Oprahs Summer Reading List For readers of Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidds The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood. Annie Coles:Īt the back of the attic I find the old cherry chest my father gave me when I was a young girl. ![]() ![]() Alvin’s a big man, rough from the start, but he was church-going, and Daddy said he worked hard. But every once in a while a fit would pass, and she would remember to mother me.Īlvin rode up on a horse to take me away before I ever laid eyes on him. Gertrude Pardee:īy the time I was Lily’s age, my mama was addled, talking out of her head regular by then. Black folk is fine to do the work long as they don’t have an opinion. Got so everybody in town started calling our neighborhood “Shake Rag.” It stuck. ![]() Oretta Bootles:Įvery colored woman on the street had a job washing and cleaning for white folk. These women have virtually nothing in common, yet they unite to stand up to injustice.īoth black and white, they find strength as women working together toward a common goal. ![]()
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