the storyHush Now, Baby emanates from personal reflections of Eva’s influence on my life, of civil rights issues, and the subsequent embarrassment that I knew so little, did so little. The urge to do something, if nothing more than reach back to touch the Eva wisdom, plagued me for years.
Turns out, this coming-of-age story grew larger than Eva and me or my family. It brought to the fore issues long hushed in our society, Southern culture particularly—alcoholism, abuse, philandering…and segregation issues. |