Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South - Jo Ivester

15/06/2021 6h 15min
Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South - Jo Ivester

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Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep SouthAuthor: Jo IvesterNarrator: Clare RadixFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6:15:26Language: EnglishRelease date: 06-15-2021Publisher: Findaway VoicesGenres: Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSummary:“A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.”―Booklist
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town.

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