Sadie's Life-Altering Secret

Sadie’s Life-Altering Secret is a fact-rooted fictionalized memoir as her daughter imagined it of what caused one young woman from Texas to flee from family and start a surprising new life in Missouri.

Born fourth of six kids during the Great Depression, Sadie starts life as a disappointment to her under-employed father who wanted a son, and another burden to her under-educated mother who needed a rest. Determined to chart a different course for herself, she looks outside the family for role...