With the beginning of World War II, the social fabric of San Francisco begins to alter, and in this atmosphere of change, Maya finally begins to feel at home.
They grow fond of their new stepfather, Daddy Clidell, and admire their mother’s free spirit. Maya is thirteen when she and Bailey move to San Francisco to live with their mother, who has remarried. Worried about the racial intolerance of Stamps, Momma Henderson takes the children back to California. When Maya’s eighth-grade graduation comes, she is proud of her academic achievements and hopeful about her future.
Maya sheds some of her insecurities and makes a new friend, a girl named Louise, who helps her navigate her first romances and life at school. Maya begins to enjoy her schoolwork and spends all her free time reading. Flowers, an educated woman who rekindles Maya’s love for books. Under the care of her grandmother, Maya slowly recovers. Overwhelmed with the feelings of shock and guilt, Maya becomes withdrawn and stops talking, and Vivian sends the children back to Stamps. Although he is found guilty of the crime, his lawyer manages to get him released the very same day, but soon afterward, Mr. He threatens to kill Bailey if the girl tells anyone, so she keeps silent, but when her mother eventually finds out, Mr. When Maya is eight years old, Vivian’s boyfriend, Mr. She works at gambling parlors and doesn’t spend much time with Maya and Bailey, but both children admire her glamorous lifestyle, which is very different from Momma Henderson’s modest, conservative behavior. Louis to live with their mother, Vivian Baxter. One day, without warning, their father arrives in Stamps, and after spending some time in the town, takes the children to St. Maya and Bailey adjust to their life in Stamps, and Momma Henderson becomes a strong role model for the siblings. When she watches Momma Henderson hide Uncle Willie from the Ku Klux Klan and sees the white neighborhood girls talk down to her grandmother, Maya is overwhelmed with a strong sense of injustice. The town of Stamps is highly segregated, and Maya has minimal contact with the white population, but nevertheless, she regularly witnesses instances of racism. More mischievous than his sister, Bailey fills their time with new adventures and becomes Maya’s best friend and confidante. From an early age, Maya struggles with the feelings of self-doubt and abandonment and finds solace in books and her brother’s company. Momma owns a General Store in the Black part of Stamps and runs it with the help of her disabled son, Uncle Willie. Their parents, recently divorced, sent the siblings to the small Southern town to live with their grandmother, Momma Henderson. The memoir opens in 1931 when a three-year-old Maya Johnson arrives in Stamps, Arkansas, along with her four-year-old brother Bailey.
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