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"Do something, Lila. Make the child be reasonable." "Time to settle," she always says to Mother. "Chirruns need time to settle their feelins." In the racist South of the 1940s, a white child, Sally, dreams of having a happy family. Sparked by her desire to belong, she shares forbidden activities to fill the empty spaces in her heart. Her parents' alcoholism, neglect, and lack of a strong family bond lead her to create her own prohibited family. But will this choice lead to divisions too deep and far-reaching ever to heal? "My gramamma tell me, 'You comin back to me one day, don't you worry. I...

Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote "Interwoven" so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on the Texas frontier. Far beyond her modest intentions, the book became a classic soon after its original publication in 1936.
As Robert Nail wrote in his introduction to the 1958 edition designed by the renowned bookman Carl Hertzog, "When you read her account of the day her family moved into a mysterious, abandoned ranch house on the very edge of the unconquered prairie and see, as her small girl eyes saw, the broken window glass littering...