Title from Playaway label. "HD." "LIGHT." "Harper Audio." "Playaway bookpacks"--Insert. Performed by Sisi A. Johnson. Release date supplied by publisher. Previously released by HarperCollins Publishers, ℗2015. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. Bookpack includes portfolio, playaway case and playaway device, print book.
Summary:
It's the summer of 1969, and Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit Big Ma and her eighty-two-year-old mother, Ma Charles. Pa can't remind them enough that the South's not like Brooklyn, and that you can't get more southern than Alabama. Across the field, through the pines, and over the creek is the Trotter home, where Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter, lives. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years, each determined to hold on to her version of the truth. Dramatic Vonetta plays middleman to the two warring, elderly sisters, while Delphine struggles against her to bring the family together. As Delphine hears about family history that she never knew existed, she learns of a hurt that happened many years ago--which maybe can't be mended. But when a tragedy comes to the farm in Alabama, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible.
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