Bøger af Gloria Shell Mitchell

Twelve-year-old Davida Kincaid, one of eighteen children in the family, attempts to escape her impoverished living conditions and adult responsibilities as the eldest child at home after the family breakdown. Experiences with abusive relationships such as sibling rivalry, peer pressure, domestic violence, and segregation in Columbia, South Carolina during the 1960s, make her wonder if a happy home is a myth or a reality. The quest for truth leads to an appreciation for her single-parent mother, dedicated teachers, and strong faith in God.

In 1975, after landing a job with a major corporation, Davida, a naive, divorced, twenty-six-year-old African-American accountant and her five-year-old daughter, Veda, relocate from South Carolina to Pennsylvania. Davida becomes enthralled with a God-sent, charismatic hunk, and sets out on an unimaginable faith journey as a minister's wife, only to discover a veil between the pulpit and the pew.

Timid six-year-old Davida Kincaid, the daughter of a garbage man and a mother she does not understand, learns how to be strong and courageous while growing up a middle child in a family of eighteen children in South Carolina during the 1950s. Davida overcomes various challenges to her family, her character, and her peace when the family moves to Marshall Village. Everybody acquires new friends, including two that jeopardize the family unit, but Davida struggles with one change that catches her completely by surprise.

Emotionally scarred in the aftermath of the family breakup, fourteen-year-old Davida Kincaid devises a plan to escape her impoverished living conditions in the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. The eighth out of eighteen children but the eldest at home maintains hope that her family will get back together. But if not, she vows to help single parent Mama change their economic status. Weekly visits to collect food money from Daddy expose her to undesirable people, places and practices until she experiences the unthinkable. Then she develops a new attitude about life, love, and family. Influenced by high school teachers, she sets out to prove that poor people have received an equal dose of intelligence and deserve fair treatment. But will racial discrimination, poverty, and low self-esteem hinder her progress?

Davida, a young bride during the Vietnam War era, spends ten days with her husband before he is deployed to Saigon. He returns a different person and Davida finds herself learning what it means to be the wife of a veteran with an undiagnosed case of PTSD.