Leaving My Little Mountain Home (far behind) begins when Beth Ann Amberson is fourteen years old and trying to convince her Mama that she is old enough to get married. The reader will get to know Beth Ann as a close friend before the conclusion of the book as she moves through the different stages of her life. The ending of the book may come to soon. Leaving My Little Mountain Home (far behind) is intended to evoke memories from the reader, both sweet and bittersweet, some happy and some sad. It is written in true Appalachian dialect and takes the reader on Beth Ann''s long journey called...

"Our big family lived in a three room board shack Daddy built 'fore he knowed how many of us they was gonna be. All together, they was ten of us stuffed into our little mountain home. They was Daddy, Mama, two older brothers, Eugene and Donald, and Eugenes wife Dotty, my two older sisters, Ila Mae and Willa-dean, and then me, my younger brother Jonnie who was sickly since he was borned in 1950, and Gran-ma on my Mamas side. If the truth be told, I spect you could say I was named after her."