Rush Home Road: A Novel

When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, Addy Shad, an eighty-year-old woman, and Sharla form a powerful bond that prompts Addy to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s, detailing her family, her first love, and the tragic event that drove her away from home. A first novel. Reprint.