Her Own Place: A Novel - Softcover

"This story belongs to Mae Lee Barnes--and reflects a life punctuated by the births, graduations, weddings and deaths that shape our memories. . . . But this is more than the success story of one indomitable black matriarch. Sanders sets her novel during times of changes, inviting us to speculate on the broader implications of the social realignment brought on by the civil rights movement. . . . Sanders writes in a vernacular she can understand, about a lifestyle she knows intimately. . . . A voice that should appeal to anyone." --Washington Post

"Somewhere in the first five pages of Her Own Place the glow begins. . . . And you begin to glow because it just feels so good." --Boston Globe

"Ms. Sanders' writing [is] sweet, genuine, comic, unsentimental but eternally forgiving. . . . Indeed, something to delight in, a fresh wind above the stale cynicism that spoils so much of contemporary literature." --Dallas Morning News

<strong>Dori Sanders</strong> grew up near York, South Carolina, USA where she still lives. Sanders is also the author of the novel <em>Clover</em>—winner of the Lillian Smith Award— and a cookbook, <em>Dori Sanders' Country Cooking</em>. She lives on her family's land, one of the oldest black-owned farms in the country, and divides her time between public speaking appearances and managing the Sanders' Peach Shed.