The 1950s and 1960s were years of shifting values and social changes that did not sit well with many citizens of Richmond, Virginia, and in particular with one conservative family, a staunchly southern mother and father and their two daughters. A powerful evocation of time and place, this memoir--a gifted poet's first book of prose--is the story of an inquisitive and sensitive young woman's coming of age and a deeply moving recounting of her reconciliation...