Set during the Civil Rights Movement, a young girl’s search for the truth about her mother leads her to the discovery of the meaning of family in this book by Sue Monk Kidd.  The Literature to Life Residency workshop is an in-school experience customized to meet the needs of the classroom.  Led by a Master Teaching Artist, sessions use high quality theatre, drama-in-education, and significant American literature to foster students’ personal connections to cross-curricular, standards-based units of study.  A Literature to Life Performance is a verbatim theatrical adaptation of significant American literature brought to life by a professional actor. Residency workshops will be presented in the four county area high schools and evening performances in the four county area Libraries for the community.