The often moving and deeply sincere account of one African-American woman's childhood in 1960s Hartford, Connecticut. The author writes with youthful verve and a keen eye about many local characters who drifted in and out of her life during these crucial years, vividly evolking a time and place through the pull of pop culture- with fond recollections of the Motown Sound, Millie the Model comic books, television westerns, and the Motortown Revue at the Apollo Theater.