The author recalls a childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.

As a child, Tina and her two siblings were abruptly moved to Atlanta, Georgia by her mother when Tina's politician father refused to end his extramarital affair.

The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

Born in 1921 in Newark, Ohio, Hendricks and his 14 siblings were moved many times, following their father's assignments as an A.M.E. pastor, before settling permanently in Toledo.