To be honest, I didn’t like this book very much. The characters are appealing and the premise is a neat one, but there was a point in the book at which I found myself skimming more than I was reading.
Set in the 1960’s South, this is the story of a motherless white girl and her black nanny who find themselves on the run.
The action is set in motion
when the nanny tries to register to vote and is attacked by the local white men. Burdened with a question of what happened to her mother, and eager to escape the father who put the mother’s memory in question, the little girl breaks her nany out of prison and together they travel to a town on the basis of nothing more substantial than a notation on the back of a picture ...
