What+I'm+Reading

I am reading a book called Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody It is an autobiography of a woman who grew up in rural Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s. When I first started reading the book I thought that I was reading about a little girl that grew up in the 1850s as a slave. Her family lived in a little shack with paper tacked onto the walls, and no furniture but a wood burning stove and one bed. Both of her parents worked for the plantation owner whose property they lived on so Anne, the oldest in her family, a seven year old girl had to watch her little sister and brother all day.