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This memoir is one of the most gripping I have read. The writer is Rita Williams, an African-American woman from Colorado. She was orphaned as a very small child and wound up in a cabin on a mountain with her aunt Daisy, an extremely frightening and eccentric woman who had Rita living almost as though it was a century ago. Meanwhile (this is the 60s and 70s) the civil rights movement is going on just down the mountain. REALLY this one is worth your time! The paperback has a picture of Williams on the cover...regal black woman in cowboy hat and native american blanket coat.... you can't miss it.
