Cid Ricketts Sumner: 3 books

THE FORTUNE TELLER TOLD HER—“YOU AIN’T DONE LIVING YET!” In A View from the Hill, popular author of novels such as Ann Singleton (1938) and But the Morning Will Come (1949), Cid Ricketts Sumner, paints a vivid picture of a woman’s mature years made rich by living life to the fullest in a series of brief essays on friendship, love, and finding new interests.

Originally published in 1949, this book tells the story of a Southern white girl and her reaction when she discovers that her unborn child will inherit Negro blood. Bentley Carr grew up without knowing she was a very pretty girl. Daughter of a seamstress in a Mississippi town, she felt overwhelmed...

Have you ever thought how our modern world with all its artificial devices, its complicated ways, and its false gods would seem to you if you were suddenly moved into the midst of it after having grown up in the old-fashioned way without knowing anything else? If you could look at our world with fresh...