Gibbons, Kaye

Hattie Barnes relates how it was growing up in North Carolina with a manic depressive mother in this fictional memoir.

A memoir of a troubled, manic-depressive mother told by a confused but affectionate daughter.

A story of three generations of women from the Kate family living in rural North Carolina.

Fifteen-year-old Ellen Foster is finally settled into a permanent home with a new mother and tries to prepare for her future while still carrying the burden of her mother's death and father's abuse.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, a young woman born to privilege on a James River plantation, finds herself at odds with her father's practice of slavery, and in defiance of her domineering parent, marries a Boston surgeon with whom she works through the Civil War.

Ruby Pitt shocks her well-to-do family by running off with an abusive migrant worker and later marrying an uneducated tenant farmer.