She Made a Way

She Made a Way is a memoir of survival and growth under the twin threats of white supremacy and male dominance. It is an intimate story of perseverance and coming of age: how a single white working mother and her only son made their way in the patriarchal and racist world of postwar Helena Arkansas a Mississippi river town. It is also a story of transformation: a lifetime of journeying together out of captivity to white supremacy and toward the deeper truth of compassion and liberation. In an era saturated with forces of racism and sexism we find here a mother and son struggling in their relationship to each other and to America maintaining love while living toward a new vision of themselves and the world.