The verdant, beautiful mountains of West Virginia, completely different in terrain from the rich, fertile soil of Central Illinois, becomes the new home of the Bannister family in nineteen fifty-four. Sissy Bannister left Redbud Grove, Illinois, as a broken-hearted fourteen-year-old, but it doesn't take her long to make new friends and find her own niche. Along the way to adulthood, she encounters different cultures and people in Dixon, West Virginia,...