Publisher's Synopsis
This story grew out of an extended family system in rural Mississippi in the early 1940s. This occurred at a time widen many black families were immigrating North. Hey young African-American boy of age 18 months has the misfortune of being caught in the middle of a Squable between his two parents who were desperately trying to escape the rigors of southern plantation living that they were in finally, his mother, was told by his father in no uncertain terms to just bring the girls to Detroit and leave the boys behind with her grandmother. This put such a strain on this young child that even after you had been potty trained eventually had to be put back in diapers.
