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The Outskirts of Hope

A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

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The Outskirts of Hope

By: Jo Ivester
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In 1967, when Jo Ivester was 10 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.

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fell asleep twice. narrator's voice got on my nerves . If you do a good deed, then tell everybody, it doesn't count.

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