In her moving memoir, Rumpf re-creates her experiences growing up in New Orleans in the 1940s and '50s, her struggles for identity, why she left New Orleans, and her need to reclaim her past after the floods of Hurricane Katrina.

In her moving memoir, Rumpf re-creates her experiences growing up in New Orleans in the 1940s and '50s, her struggles for identity, why she left New Orleans, and her need to reclaim her past after the floods of Hurricane Katrina.