New York: Penguin, (1986.). The story of a young black woman as told by a white librarian: Rannee Simms, an impoverished mill-worker's daughter grows up in a small black community in Alabama during the 1930's - but with her four sons, she moves north in search of freedom and discovers that ".. all Blacks are trespassers in a white world." 254 pp. ISBN: 0-140084940.