Once Upon a Childhood
Subtitle: Stories and Memories of American Youth
Publisher: NAL Trade
Published: October 5, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780451212962
First sentence: Dorothy Allison considers her birth in Greenville, South Carolina, to an impoverished, unwed mother who had just turned fifteen years old to be the "central fact" of her life.