A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, He Included Me weaves together the story of a black family - eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister - and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead.

Sarah Rice (Author)
>Louise H. Westling (Editor)
LOUISE H. WESTLING is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. She is the author or editor of several books, including Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens.