In 1930s New Orleans, a young girl unravels her dead mother's past.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Berthe Amoss is the author and illustrator of twenty-eight children's and young adult books. Her picture book The Cajun Gingerbread Boy won a Children's Choice Award, and The Chalk Cross was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award. Berthe lives on the Gulf Coast in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
