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Ripped from middle-class life in Philadelphia, and transplanted to a single-parent household in the segregated south, Sarah, a precocious black child struggles to be the master of her fate. She refuses to accept the segregation that tries to confine her―a system her mother accepts as the southern way of life. A brave memoir that testifies to the author’s fiery spirit and sense of self that sustained her through family, social and cultural upheavals.

SARAH BRACEY WHITE, born in South Carolina, is a teacher, arts consultant and motivational speaker. She authored a poetry collection, Feelings Brought to Surface, and her essays have been published in many regional newspapers and in the following anthologies: Children of the Dream; Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White; Aunties: 35 Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother; Gardening On A Deeper Level. She lives with her husband in Westchester County, N.Y.