Overview

Adeline Scott grew up poor in urban Detroit during the 1920s and 1930s. As her family struggled to meet basic needs, she felt deeply the classism around her, but she also felt a sense of broader community in a neighborhood that offered moments of both grief and joy. Reckoning with the hand she was dealt and doing her best to care for her parents and siblings while maintaining her own independence and curiosity about the world and her place in it, Adeline always persevered. Her story is emblematic of many who grew up in Depression-era America. While intensely personal, her experiences are universal and relatable.

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""Make no mistake. This is Adeline's story, unflinchingly, plainly told. A story of truly wretched poverty in a period when Detroit was heralded for its growth, industry, and steadily increasing wealth. This is no nostalgia-inducing narcotic of better times. Read it to be stunned by a woman's very detailed account of how poverty feels to a young girl, how it steals potential and is undefeated-but in a girl like Adeline, it never wins. I highly recommend."" -Kay Turner, author of Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars

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Katherine Sadler, recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women's Studies, is an emeritus professor at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, having taught history for more than thirty years between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver. She earned a doctorate from UCLA under the direction of William Worger. Dr. Sadler researches and writes in women's history, and believes passionately in the importance of individual stories as part of this historical record. Her current project is on the filles du roi of seventeenth-century Quebec.

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