Under the Broom Tree is a memoir chronicling the life of Annie Grace Chandler in Emanuel County, Georgia. Following the death of her mother, four-year-old Annie Grace Chandler and her brother, Buddy, get sent away by their father to live with relatives. Suffering abuse at the hands of their uncle, Annie Grace and her brother are eventually abandoned by him on a street corner. They are taken in by their aged grandparents until their deaths in the late...