num_pages: 232
description: Growing up in solitude on a cotton farm, little Alice seeks love and belonging, finding her voice through music. Like other girls in the Fifties, she is sure that marriage is her destiny. Her first real love at 17 ends painfully and her life unfolds thereafter in a series of unlikely rebound adventures including five very wrong decisions.
language: English
title: Bitter Persimmons: An Unlikely Story
titlecomplete: Bitter Persimmons: An Unlikely Story
publisher: Dime Box Press