So Ludelphia sets off across the river to try and find a doctor. However, she herself is dying from pneumonia and influenza. For the first time in many years, Ludelphia's mother has delivered a healthy baby. One bad thing after another happens to her - but I can attest, this is the reality of our lives sometimes. Ludelphia has had nothing but rotten luck for much of her life, and it certainly continues in this story. So when this book came out, I reserved it at the library immediately. What incredible stories! I've thought many times of these people, of these quilts, of the lives in that community, even researching quilt shops and museums in Alabama for a future summer trip. The quilts and their stories have traveled - and are still traveling - all around the country. I was lucky enough to see the exhibition of these quilts a year or two ago in a huge exhibition in San Francisco. Gee's Bend is now famous for the quilts that have been produced by the hands of the women who lived there through the depression and afterwards. Ludelphia lives in Gee's Bend, Alabama, a tiny, extremely poor black community on the banks of the Alabama River, 40 miles by road from the closest town. This is the story of three days in the life of 10-year old sharecropper Ludelphia Bennett in 1932.
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