These are the exciting memoirs of an articulate black lady who survived thedestitution of her childhood by scavenging in the Mobile Alabama city dump.She lived ... » 

These are the exciting memoirs of an articulate black lady who survived thedestitution of her childhood by scavenging in the Mobile Alabama city dump.She lived in the segregated South during the era of Civil Rightsdemonstrations. As a mother of six she overcame the shock of discovering shewas one of several wives with whom her itinerant preacher husband claimedconjugal privileges. She became an artists model in Boston where sheexperienced racist terror and love of a white man. This is a beautiful upbeatbook of love happiness and the survival of the spirit. «