Taking the Mississippi Cure
by
Norma Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing...