Appalachian Mountain Girl

One woman’s “affecting and well-written” memoir of growing up with twelve siblings in rural Kentucky, and returning as an adult ( Kirkus Reviews ). Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth—but without sentimentality—Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda beg