amazing book i really recommend it. my mom gave me this book and at first i was really skeptical about it but when i first read it i couldn't put it down. this book talks about the hardships of a young seventeen year old girl who wants to leave her home town Bay Slough in alabama and actually become some thing more than just a housemaid. even though she was 3 years too young to join the WACS she still did it and showed she was just about able to do aything that the white people said she can't