Out on a Limb of the Family Tree - Softcover

It's 1997 and eighty-eight year old Missouri Pickett is the matriarch of an Appalachian family in Sweetapple, Georgia. This book is about a way of life that is fast disappearing into the modern world of common language, little or no accents, and a motto of "hurry, hurry, hurry!" Certainly a way of life held dear to those who remember. Struggling with death, poverty, alcoholism, and plain ignorance is a difficult life, but Missouri handles it with a little bit of sternness and a whole lot of love in this touching story about women of the south. Mostly fictional, interwoven with true stories the author collected over a period of years from family and friends, this book is an often funny, often sobering, look at the way things were just a few short years ago. The folks inside this book will not soon be forgotten.