Trusting the Currents

Author Lynnda Pollio''s life as a busy New Yorker abruptly changes when she unexpectedly hears the mystical, elderly voice of Addie Mae Aubrey, a Southern, African American woman. Her first words, "It''s not what happened to me that matters," begin a spirited remembering of Addie Mae''s teenage years in the late 1930s rural South and the hard learned wisdom Addie Mae asks Lynnda to share. As women...