Her Own Place Author:Dori Sanders The only child of South Carolina tenant farmers and still in her teens when she marries, Mae Lee Barnes saves her wages from a job at a munitions plants, buys farmland of her own, and waits for her husband's return from World War II. He returns. Then he departs, returns, departs. He will not stay put. Eventually he is gone ... more »for good, but not until Mae Lee is left with five children to raise and a farm to run, by herself. Mae Lee is, in succession, war bride, abandoned wife, proud mother, dutiful daughter, successful farmer, retiree and town dweller, equally proud grandmother, first black hospital auxiliary member, elegant hostess, avid Braves fan, coper with things as they come. How does she do it? She isn't Gifted, Brilliant, All-Knowing; she is -- well, Mae Lee Barnes is simply Indomitable. And while she is going about her life, the lives of black people and white people, the rural community and little town she retires to are changing.« less