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A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama's Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II.

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“Balancing the personal with the cultural, Henderson does a fine job of evoking farm, mining, and small-town life of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s while charting the education and emotional growth of a girl who is hungry for knowledge and eager to experience the wider world. I found Henderson’s story to be an engaging, well-told, and pleasing coming-of-age memoir.”
—Jennifer Horne, poet laureate of Alabama and author of Tell the World You’re a Wildflower: Stories and the poetry collections Bottle Tree,Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light.

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Contents

A Note to Readers

Prologue

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Epilogue

The World through the Dime Store Door A Memoir

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      Publisher University of Alabama Press
      Published 10/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780817320775
      978-0817320775
      ISBN-10 0817320776
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      Autobiography: general Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A coming-of-age memoir evoking farm, mining, and small-town life in Alabama's Tuscaloosa County as the world transitions from the Great Depression to World War II.

      Trade Review
      “Balancing the personal with the cultural, Henderson does a fine job of evoking farm, mining, and small-town life of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s while charting the education and emotional growth of a girl who is hungry for knowledge and eager to experience the wider world. I found Henderson’s story to be an engaging, well-told, and pleasing coming-of-age memoir.”
      —Jennifer Horne, poet laureate of Alabama and author of Tell the World You’re a Wildflower: Stories and the poetry collections Bottle Tree,Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light.

      Table of Contents

      Contents

      A Note to Readers

      Prologue

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      Epilogue

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