On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensi...
I really didn’t want Quincy to hear any of her date jokes. With Quincy sitting beside me, I looked up baobab tree on the computer. Unexpectedly, there were a bunch of sites. I popped on one that called it “the tree of life” and a photo came up of about thirty baobab trees ...
Never. I couldn’t believe it. At first she had said she wouldn’t go because of all this drama with Gina. But she finally said okay. We walked through the gates of the Magic Kingdom and her eyes were all wide like she was a little girl. I felt like I was opening up the world for her. I felt like a...
I asked as we drove home. “Can I read it?” “It’s about grown-up things,” she answered. “But you could tell me some of it, couldn’t you?” “Part of it talked about a letter she’d written to me a long time ago, apologizing for h...