NOMINATED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR-ALABAMA 2007: This book is a narrative memoir about growing up Southern at the height of both the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. It is the story of my family, of the dysfunctional cold wars at home that threatened peace in the inner sanctum and mirrored world tension. It is the story of growing up in the George Wallace Era in Alabama, a story of a young woman's journey as she learns, and often fails, to cope with the changing world and her father's inherent flaws.
For many years, I had been trying to write the story that I felt needed to be told: the story of my father the racist, the dictator, the gospel-singing railroader from Butler County. He was both simple and complex. Not until both parents died did I understand the story that became this book. Alabama Listening is not a political or historical book, but a journal of discovery, often in storytelling form. Step back in time, hear my father's tales, and some of my own.
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