The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631529641)

In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother--a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South--who made the most enduring mark on the town. In The Outskirts of Hope, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family's experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement.

Author: Jo Ivester
ISBN-10: 1631529641
ISBN-13: 9781631529641
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2015
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 16
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001