HUMBLE PIE

      Historical Fiction in Progress

In rural West Tennessee, two little girls—Sudie and Mabie—find each other across a cotton field. One is white. One is Black. They are best friends in the only way the world will allow them to be: quietly, carefully, and at great cost.

Their friendship is tender, dangerous, beautiful, and tragic. What happens between them does not end with them. It echoes through daughters, granddaughters, houses, music, silence, shame, love, and memory.

In Humble Pie, Sally Hendrick returns to the small Southern town that shaped her family and visualizes the lives of the women who came before her—her grandmother Sudie, her mother, the grandmothers who carried their own secrets, and the Black women who raised, loved, protected, and witnessed her in a world built to keep their stories separate.

This is a novelized historical memoir about inheritance: what is spoken, what is buried, what is passed down, and what one white girl must finally learn to see.