This is the story of a girl coming into her own, learning and understanding her place in the world. It is about the innocence and resiliency of childhood, the space of happiness and joy which poverty was unable to demolish or diminish.
Contents
Mother -- What does your mother do? -- Trouble with reading -- Please stay off the grass -- Kids -- Discipline -- There and back again -- 1509 Franklin -- Schoolteacher -- Naming -- Costume making -- View from a bus window -- He is blue and I gray, fragmented -- Quarterdeck Inn -- Seashore Drive -- Refuge -- Quincy High School -- Mr. Mac -- "as my dream wrestled with itself and me" -- Cutting -- Homeless to Harvard -- Moving in -- Blueberry honey -- Parents' weekend -- Sleeping outside -- Universe and everything -- Discipline, part II -- Love is bodies, blood and sweat -- Meeting him -- (How to) make a room of your own -- Graduation.