Up a Road Slowly Summary / Study Guide

Up a Road Slowly | Overview

Up a Road Slowly is Julie Trelling's story, beginning when she is seven years old and her mother dies, and ending with her entrance into college at seventeen. Julie and each of the diverse members of her family must learn to adapt to life's sorrows through self-discipline and to derive pleasure from the simple joys of hard work, caring for others, and earning respect and love. Seven-year-old Julie feels abandoned on a very long and lonely road as she is forced to adjust to the loss of her mother and to the transition from a warm, enveloping home with her beloved older sister and...

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