Hitch Your Wagon to a Star oleh Terri W. Majors

Hitch Your Wagon to a Star is a biographical novel detailing a young girls life during the Great Depression and the East Texas Oil Boom. It follows her through her college graduation at the age of 40, coming after the end of World War II, the Cold War, the Baby Boom, and the early years of Feminism. For the protagonist, her successes mirror what Henri Frederic Amiel meant when he said, Conquering any difficulty always gives secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary to ones liberty.