New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page "to... with all best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.