Erma Lee is on the run . . . Running from an abusive husband . . . running from a mother who doesn't care -- never cared. Running from a soul-numbing factory job that has held her down her entire life ... Erma Lee and her granddaughter, Cher, flee to the town of Wiregrass, Alabama, to escape the...
I’d never been so grateful for anything in all my life. “Daisies,” I said, pointing to a bunch of wildflowers growing around a stop sign near the entrance of our neighborhood. “What?” Heather asked, leaning over the car console, closer to me. “I never noticed those daisies before,” I said. Turnin...
She imagined the day while pulling the end of the jagged cross saw or carrying the buckets of water to the group while the blazing sun, so strong that she thought it was riding her back, pounded down on her. Naturally relief came the day the last pine fell and green pine needles fanned out in sub...