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The Outskirts of Hope

Jo Ivester

“A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.”―Booklist In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. Duration - 15h 22m. Author - Jo Ivester. Narrator - Clare Radix. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

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United States

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“A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.”―Booklist In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. Duration - 15h 22m. Author - Jo Ivester. Narrator - Clare Radix. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

Language:

English


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