![]() She finds inner strength and meaning through her love of family, community, and the land. Her Own Place (1993), Sanders's second novel, traces fifty years in the life of Mae Lee Barnes, a World War II bride who raises five children and runs her own farm in South Carolina after her husband abandons the family. The child's perceptive and humorous first-person narrative depicts their experiences as they learn to live with and love each other. Clover Hill and her stepmother, Sara Kate, build a life together in rural South Carolina while coming to terms with their grief, with Clover's extended family, and with their cultural differences. ![]() Dori Sanders, the popular storyteller and lifelong peach farmer in Filbert, South Carolina, made her literary debut with Clover (1990), a novel about a ten-year-old black farm girl whose widowed father dies only hours after marrying a white woman. ![]()
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