Womenfolks : Growing up down South

In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meeting--a far cry from the magnolias and mint juleps of Gone with the Wind.

Shirley Abbott is the author of Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South and The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas, she now lives in New York and Massachusetts.

Introduction

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One Daughters of Time

1

(18)

Two Good Country People

19

(26)

Three Drowned Women

45

(29)

Four The Servant Problem

74

(30)

Five The Importance of Dissimulation

104

(12)

Six That Old-time Religion

116

(33)

Seven Generations

149

(30)

Eight Why Southern Women Leave Home

179

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Womenfolks : Growing up down South

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