An outgrowth of the author's journal kept when she was spending part of her time at home in Napa, Calif., and part of it in Hollywood as a script writer and technical adviser to William Wyler, who was converting her book, The Friendly persuasion, into a movie.
The noted American writer celebrates her mother's life-affirming values and behavior and records their influence on her own fight with tuberculosis and her sister's courageous response to the onslaught of incurable spinal cancer.