This is the story of a motherless girl that takes place in 1964. She is white, but she finds the only love she has ever known with a group of black women and their friends after she runs away from her abusive and cruel father. She follows information about her late mother and finds a world of love and her calling.

anyone who likes a story of emotional redemption and finding a family where there is no blood relation that gives one more than their "real" family ever could.

the characters of Lily and August and their interaction and Lily's observations of the world.

sad for Lily, but hopeful too.

knows how to get you to care about her characters.

it is a good story. I only wish there was more reason behind the father's behavior than the reader is given.

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