Chapel Hill in Plain Sight: Notes from the Other Side of the Tracks

Her personal life is woven through the essays. She writes of her friendships, her youthful adventures, her political revelations, her development as a writer. She retraces her early years in North Carolina where she was considered an oddity: hailing from a once-rich family that relocated from Brahmin Boston to a poor neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill after losing their fortune in the Depression.