These Walls Between Us Wendy Sanford by Wendy Sanford 9781647421687, 1647421683 instant download after payment.

"This tender and evocative story about friendship across racial and class lines is told with unflagging honesty and is an important guide for living in this time of racial reckoning."
—Catherine Whitmire, author of Practicing Peace: A Devotional Walk through the Quaker Tradition and Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity
In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named Mary White traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic worker for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Mary was fifteen, Wendy was twelve. As the Black "help" and the privileged white daughter, they were not slated for friendship—but Wendy's parents kept bringing Mary back each summer and when Wendy and Mary, now adults, found themselves both divorced, single mothers, they began to walk the beach together at nightfall. They shared their challenges with the drinking in Wendy's family—Wendy as a daughter of alcoholics,...