During the Depression, Baby and her abandoned siblings are roadwalkers, homeless wanderers foraging for existence across the rural South. Rescued by a kindly white man and placed with nuns in New Orleans, Baby is renamed Mary Woods and grows up to find success as a dressmaker and painter.
- ISBN10 0807129135
- ISBN13 9780807129135
- Publish Date 1 July 2003 (first published 19 July 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Louisiana State University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English