title: My Home Is Far Away: An Autobiographical Novel
author:  Dawn Powell 
description: Dawn Powell was in the midst of writing one of her finest satires, <a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=1883642418/${0}"><i>A Time to Be Born</i></a>, when she contracted a fever that brought childhood memories back so vividly that she stopped her novel and began scrawling reminiscences that were later collected in <i>My Home Is Far Away</i>. Although not true autobiography, the life of the main character, Marcia Willard, parallels Powell's life, including the death of her mother, life with a father who was on the road, and the traumatic remarriage of her father to a vicious and selfish woman. <i>My Home Is Far Away</i> is an excellent depiction of what childcare was like for motherless children in the 19th century in comparison to their family-oriented neighbors.
zlib_text: > > YOU WERE ALWAYS MINE
  
  > > RETURN TO FOREST GROVE
  
  > HANNA SCOTT
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  > 1\. _Lacy_
  
  > 2\. _Lacy_
  
  > 3\. _Lacy_
  
  > 4\. _Lacy_
  
  > 5\. _Lacy_
  
  > 6\. _Lacy_
  
  > 7\. _Lacy_
  
  > 8\. _Lacy_
  
  > 9\. _Lacy_
  
  > 10\. _Lacy_
  
  > 11\. _Lacy_
  
  > 12\. _Lacy_
  
  > 13\. _Lacy_
  
  > 14\. _Lacy_
  
  > 15\. _Lacy_
  
  >  _Epilogue_
  
  >  _Epilogue 2_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  You Were Always Mine © 2020 by Hanna Scott Editor: Kasi Alexander All rights
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  > 1
  
  > LACY
  
  AFTER SO MANY years away from my hometown, I’m sure that the memories and pain
  that drove me from the place I’d always known as home would have faded away by
  now. But I’m wrong. As I drive down the main street to Forest Grove, Tennessee
  heading toward my family’s B&B, I feel myself tearing up over 