Three Red Suitcases

A Southern Childhood

De: Levonne Gaddy

Narrado por: Levonne Gaddy

When adult Levonne Gaddy returns to the rural North Carolina community where she was born and raised to attend her mother's funeral, the director bars her entry to the viewing room, assuming she is white and therefore not related to the “colored” woman in the coffin. A sad, funny, and poignant story of childhood emerges as memories surface of racism and of the dysfunctional family life she left behind. Turmoil during the 1960s' racial integration of southern schools fill her mind, as do the challenges of her first job, at age 11, as the live-in caregiver for an elderly white woman. How will she come to terms with a childhood that includes rape and the death of her father? How will she make peace with the loss of the woman who gave birth to her but with whom she always struggled to make a connection?

©2018 Levonne Gaddy (P)2018 Levonne Gaddy

Unpacking the Story

Well written history of the poignant childhood story of growing up in the racist south in the 1960.I enjoyed listening to the voice of the author read.