From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip.
Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is--as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be..
Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
Starla\'s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three.
In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother\'s Mississippi home. . . .
That\'s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear.
Whistling Past the Graveyard .
From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip
