Description The winter has been a tough one for Pauline and Arlene\'s family.
Each is certain that the other has the easy life, but each discovers how wrong she is as this extraordinary novel unfolds..
Meanwhile, crippled Arlene takes care of all the housework and cooking, dreaming of one day working at the mill and earning money and respect.
Pauline labors from dawn to dusk alongside the other members of her family at the local cotton mill, and wishes she could stay home like her sister.
Though only eleven, the twin girls are old in too many ways: They know what it is to work to exhaustion, to be hamstrung by longing, to be blind with hate.
Description The winter has been a tough one for Pauline and Arlene\'s family
