Stand There and Look Pretty Darlin': Don't You Worry Your Pretty Little Head 'bout Nothin'

In these simply told but profoundly felt stories, Mary Sue Rabe offers us a vision of a society that is as potent as it is poignant. Growing up in a small town in Texas before the old ways of thinking and doing began to fail, we see this world through the eyes and heart of the wise child. Her deep feeling and love for the African Americans who worked in her home and on her family plantation gave her the strength to stand up for what she knew was both wrong and immoral. We meet her confronting the old ways of being in business, racism, marriage, and self development. And we see how she has emerged out of the crucible of outmoded ways of being, inspiring and teaching other women and some very good men what this new time requires of us all.