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If the Creek Don't Rise |
| My Life Out West with the
Last Black Widow of the Civil War |
| Rita Williams
ISBN: 0151011540
Format: Hardcover, 336pp
Pub. Date: May 2006
Publisher: Harcourt
BBP Sales Rank: 55,785
List Price: $23.00
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When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This
death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving
African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her
sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch
hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death
or to an easier existence elsewhere, leaving Rita as Daisy's last hope to right
the racial wrongs of the past and to make good on a lifetime of thwarted
ambition. If the Creek Don't Rise tells how Rita found her way out from under
this crippling legacy and, instead of becoming "a perfect credit to her race,"
discovered how to become herself.
Set amid the harsh splendor of the Colorado Rockies, this is a gorgeous,
ruthless, and unique account of the lies families live-and the moments of truth
and beauty that save us. |
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