Fresh Water from Old Wells

"After a lifetime of hearing ... stories but never fully understanding them, McMahon set out with a map and tape recorder to learn three things: (1) how the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath shaped, or misshaped, her father; (2) how growing up in a family with this embittered, violent, and then absent father shaped her; and (3) how she survived it all remarkably intact."--Page 4 of cover.