The Gully Path (Daughters of Parrish Oaks)

About the Author DR. SUE CLIFTON, in addition to being an author, is a fly fisher, retired educator, ghost hunter, and lover of all things vintage including vehicles and her 1950 Comet camper "Spam I Am". Dr. Sue and "Spam" travel to events all over the U.S. sponsored by the national group in which Dr. Sue is a member, Sisters on the Fly. Dr. Sue can't remember a time when she did not write beginning with two plays published at sixteen. Her writing career was put on hold while she traveled the world with her husband Woody in his career, as well as with her own career as a teacher and administrator in Mississippi, Alaska, New Zealand, and on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. The places Dr. Sue has lived provide rich background and settings for the novels she creates. Dr. Sue now divides her time among homes in Montana, Mississippi, and Arkansas and enjoys traveling, ghost hunting, fly fishing and camping with Woody and their grandchildren. THE GULLY PATH is the first of five published novels written by Dr. Sue. Ten percent of Dr. Sue's book sales goes to Casting for Recovery, a national organization that provides fly fishing retreats for women survivors of breast cancer. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description Mississippi. The 1950s and ’60s. Two friends, one white and the other black. Sue Ann spends her pre-adolescent years protecting her best friend, Liz Bess, from prejudice and mistreatment, but she can’t protect her from the untimely death of her mother and their resulting separation as Liz Bess is sent north to school. As a young adult, Sue Ann falls in love with Tate Douglas, a civil rights worker from the North, during the violent summer of 1964. Liz Bess, now Elizabeth, returns to Mississippi to become a freedom fighter for her people and comes face to face with racist violence and death. Through the turmoil, Sue Ann is reminded of the words of Elizabeth’s grandmother: “Love ain’t black, and love ain’t white; it jes’ is.”