South Carolina, 1940s.
A farmer's daughter marries her father's hired hand and the two of them have Paulette, a child who will grow up on her own.
In an era when divorce was rare, Paulette's mother was married three times and struggled to care for her daughter, working at a drugstore by day and a bar by night.
Paulette spent nights alone in their apartment leafing through her mother's True Confessions magazines and listening to 78 rpm records, dancing with her shadow.
In this collection of expres.
Fairy Fort Books, Llc A child is a poem you learn by heart: a memoir in verse, paperback/paulette whitehurst
