The story starts off with a woman knocking on the trailer door of 70 year Addy Shadd. She asks her if her 5 year old daughter can stay with her for awhile. Addy agrees and the child, Sharla Cody shows up a day later with basically nothing more than the dirty, nasty, clothes on her back and nothing else. Addy takes her in, cleans her up, and begins to attempt to mother the child who's own mother never really cared about her. Come to find out Sharla's mother takes off to never return again. Addy keeps Sharla with her and tries to mother her the best that she can and try and give the child a good life. While taking care of Sharla, memories of Addy's own past come to head..a rape that produced a pregnancy, leaving home and fleeing to Detroit, the loss of her child, lost loves, marriage, more children, and many other things that occured in Addy's life. The author also manages to mix in a good portion of history into the story from the Underground Railroad to Prohibition.
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