Hard times for Jake Smith
By: Aileen Kilgore Henderson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Minneapolis, Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Family -- Fiction; Identity -- Fiction; Abandoned children -- Fiction; Depressions -- History -- Fiction; Disguise -- Fiction; Alabama -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.