From Harcourt.com: "Orphaned at four, Rita Williams went to live with her Aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American Widow of a Union Soldier and a maverick who had left a sharecropping life in the South to reinvent herself out West.

There, Rita grew up amid the harsh splendor of the Colorado Rockies and Daisy’s expectations that she make good on a lifetime of thwarted ambitions. In If The Creek Don’t Rise, Rita shares how she escaped this crippling legacy and, instead of becoming 'a perfect credit to her race,' discovered how to be herself."

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