Roadwalkers

From the author of The Keepers of the House, a "beautiful" novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era (The Boston Globe).

Mary is an orphaned, homeless, African American child, abandoned by the rest of her family and left to care for her younger brother. She becomes a "roadwalker," a nomad who wanders across the rural south and quickly learns to rely on herself to survive.

When she grows up to become a successful artist and a designer, s...