More than three decades later, with the death of her parents as a catalyst, Amanda began sifting through the relics of her family's fragile past. She wondered if the chance objects she and her mother and father had held on to-a faded doodle of a girl gathering apples, broken knickknacks, worn family photos and her parents' journals-might unravel their long-standing and tightly woven narrative and tell a different story.
Searching through the eyes of "The Gathering Girl," Amanda Irene Rush discovers an alternate truth buried within the deepest roots of her family tree. She demonstrates how the untangling of a twisted past can be both beautiful and brutal, and how the journey can ultimately lead to forgiveness.