Girl Hidden: A Memoir

At the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains sits the small farm towns of Rockwell, Sugar Loaf and Liledoun, North Carolina. A large family struggles to survive the chaotic nature of the familyhead: their mother, a terrifying blend of rage, disappointment and religious command. Her husband follows sheepishly behind, a monster of his own kind. And then there's young Jesse; unwanted from conception but kept as a pawn for her mother's bidding. Her life is a tale of growing up with no one to count on but herself.A story of southern hills, a mother's neglect, fireflies, kidnapping, birth, death and the taste of sweet mulberries ripened by the sun. Jesse is a girl hidden who becomes a woman discovered.