Publisher's Synopsis
"The Evolution of Hallie Jo Everheart, a novel in stories, follows a motherless Ozark farm girl on her challenging journey from girlhood to motherhood beginning in the 1960s. It focuses, in an uplifting but non-sentimentalized way, on the triumph of kindness and generosity over mean-spiritedness and the selfish pursuit of self-interest. Over the course of her journey to adulthood--one that takes her from rural Missouri to art school in New York City and eventually back to her Ozark roots--the girl encounters a series of colorful men and women who, although scarred by life and struggling with problems of their own, take the time to help her acquire a sense of self-worth during key stages in her development"--.
