Somewhat of an autobiography of writer Marjorie Keenan Rawlings life in Cross Creek Florida. Written towards the end of the depression it was hard to identify with. Ms Rawlings left her life and husband in the north in order to find inspiration for her work. She bought an orange grove sight unseen and naively thought to make a living off of it. What she learned along the way, as well as living in the small community of Cross Creek led up to her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Yearling". Interesting characters but slow moving and at parts tedious.