Day: February 3, 2015

Portland Book Review Gives Not Without My Father FIVE STARS!

On: February 3, 2015

In: Books, Make a Memory, Reading, What's Happening?

Portland Book Review says Not Without My Father “talks the talk and walks the walk.” They call it “funny, poignant, agonizing, raunchy (because ME), and delightfully out there.”Continue Reading

Meet a Character: Natchez’s Miss Ethel

By: Andra Watkins

On: February 3, 2015

In: Books, Reading, Travel

Readers of Not Without My Father can’t forget Miss Ethel Banta, doyenne of Natchez, Mississippi’s Hope Farm. When I grow up, I want to BE Miss Ethel. Few people could unseat her near the apex of favorite people I’ve met.

During my Trace Corridor book tour, MTM and I went out of our way to see her in Natchez.Continue Reading