![]() ![]() It's the stuff of a simple life, and Sanders doesn't dress it up with any unnecessary heroics or hyperbole-although, occasionally, her strong, clear prose slides into an intrusive journalese (``The civil rights revolution, spreading across the South, opened the way for Mae Lee Barnes's dream of educating her children beyond high school, in college''). After her children are grown and successfully launched, Mae Lee moves from the farm to a new house in town and, at her son's urging, volunteers as the first black woman on the hospital auxiliary. When her husband abandons her, she carries on, expanding her farmland, handpicking cotton in the fields, and stashing her money in hiding places around the house. ![]() Mae Lee Barnes grows up on a small South Carolina farm, marries young, and gives birth to five children. Sanders (the well-received Clover, 1990) returns with a life story that seems to hum along so simply it takes a while to notice that it resonates as powerfully as an old hymn. ![]()
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