A six-generation tale told from the perspective of matriarch Gussie Locke explores how abandonment played a pivotal role in her life, from her decision to run away from home and her struggles as a single mother to her own daughter's flight and her grandchildren's efforts to find answers, in a story set against the panoramic backdrop of the American West in the twentieth century. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Westerns
- Publisher: Penguin Group USA
- Pages: 419
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 27, 2007
- Date Published: March 27, 2007
- Author: William Haywood Henderson