Go North, Young Lady

Christmas Day of 2005 was the last time four generations of author Nora Burchs family would gather at the same table for a Holiday dinner. By the same time the following year, there were two empty seats. In this memoir, Burch describes the loss of first her mother and then her husband and narrates how she came to terms with her grief. In Go North, Young Lady Burch tells how she returned to teaching and then made one of the most drastic decisions of her life. She left her home state of Louisiana,