The Cinderella Stories: Lessons I Learned From my Grandmother : A Spiritual Memoir

ISBN-13: 9783639111118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 56 str.

Trela Anderson

Opis

"This peace that I have,§the world didn't give it to me.§And if the world didn't give it,§The world can't take it away.§§This joy that I have,§the world didn't give it to me.§And if the world didn't give it,§The world can't take it away." §§These lyrics, more than any other,§encapsulate the spirit of Cinderella§Whitfield. The Cinderella Stories brings to center§stage the life of a woman some may consider ordinary.§Yet, her life mirrors the extraordinary --- inner§peace in the time of war, unwavering faith in the§time of cynicism, and love in the time of strife.§Cinderella is born in 1930 in the small Southern§town of Hernando, Mississippi. As a young woman, she§divorces an abusive husband and migrates to§Memphis in search of a better life. By age thirty,§she is a single mother charged with the§responsibility of raising six children on her own.§Along her journey, she meets her prince§and begins to live out her own fairy tale. §The Cinderella Stories is a work steeped in memory§and faith.

O autorze

Trela Anderson has studied English and creative writing at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Georgia,
and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Currently, she is
an Assistant Professor of English at Fayetteville State
University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.