The book depicts Samuel Mills growing up in the last days of the rural Old South with the blessings, scar tissues and victories of a rough-edged upbringing. With Samuel's collection of raw, unglorified and poignant stories from his life in the 1950s and '60s to the present day, he captures the brutal hardness and the unanticipated softness life offered. Sharing his experiences with honesty, humor and a touch of absurdity, he captures the essence of the spartan life of a sharecropper family amidst a multitude of relatives. He reaps the good fortune and positives of character being raised in a...