The Upper Room (Paperback, New edition)

Set in the bayous of the Florida Everglades, in a migrant labor camp, "The Upper Room" is a vibrant and lyrical story, peopled with richly-drawn characters, especially larger-than-life Mama Ruby, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, a woman with healing hands, a voracious appetite, and a switchblade and a crucifix at her bosom.