Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in the country, a land where tobacco farming and coal mining have declined. But strong women have always found creative ways to endure and even thrive. A local who went on to graduate from Harvard and Yale, Cassie Chambers traces her own path out of and back into Kentucky. This inspiring memoir is also the story of her grandmother—a child bride who raised seven children—and her own mom, the first in the family to graduate from high school.