In 1963 Jim Crow segregation laws were in effect in Mississippi. Nine year old Starla Claudelle last saw her mama when she was three and her daddy works on an oil rig in the Gulf, leaving Starla to be raised by her strict grandmother. Sassy Starla spends a good deal of time grounded and when her grandmother threatens to send her to reform school, Starla takes off for Nashville to find her mama. She accepts a ride from a black woman named Eula traveling with a white baby. While traveling with Eula, Starla is exposed to the hostility, mistreatment and racial inequality that Eula endures because of her skin color. Accepting a ride from Eula is life changing for Starla and an unlikely and cherished friendship develop between the two of them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Try the audio version which received Audio File Magazine’s Earphones Award.