This story follows the life of a baby girl left in a swing of an apartment complex to, later, on be given away to her maternal great-grandmother, grandmother, and step-grandfather, therefore, causing her to be an orphan at an early age while yet both parents were alive and functioning in a society that is bias and racist toward them. The book covers the early years of Riddy Ann from the swing, grandma’s house, learning disabilities to heartache and heartbreak. Riddy’s life is followed through the sicknesses, love affairs, bouts of depression, suicidal years, to her...