Bøker av Aileen Kilgore Henderson

Creates a vivid portrait of what life was like for many living in the rural South during the Depression and provides context for their everyday lives. Drawing on her girlhood diaries, Aileen Henderson's nuanced storytelling sheds light on the common struggle for sustenance during a time when people were at their most vulnerable.

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.