Bailey, Cate

Hillary Clinton's book, It Takes a Village, made me think about the village I grew up in, and I realized that those people really helped determine the person I became. So I drew lessons from specific events, and these stories are the results. Out of respect for the people I have written about, the names and the stories have been fictionalized, and I have moved them all into Lakeville. But in recalling events I knew about as a child, which may not have been the way they actually occurred, I saw how to deal with challenges I met as an adult.I am now happily in my third marriage, and my family in...