A Daughter of the Morning

By Zona Gale

I Found this paper on the cellar shelf. It come around the boys' new overalls. When I was cutting it up in sheets with the butcher knife on the kitchen table, Ma come in, and she says:

"What you doin' now?"

The way she says "now" made me feel like I've felt before - mad and ready to fly. So I says it right out, that Id meant to keep a secret. I says:

"I'm makin' me a book."

"Book!" she says. "For the receipts you know?" she says, and laughed like she knows how. I hate cooking, and she knows it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Release date: Nov 6, 2017