Ruth Candler Lovett, great granddaughter of the founder of The Coca Cola Company, came to adulthood in a place of privilege in 1950's Atlanta. In 1964, at the age of 29, she died of breast cancer, leaving behind three small children.Thirty years later, her youngest child sets out to discover the mother he never knew. In this moving portrait of a mother discovered, Charles Lovett finds the words to fill the silence left by his mother's death and takes the reader on an emotionally powerful journey that celebrates life even in the face of death.
Ruth Candler Lovett, great granddaughter of the founder of The Coca Cola Company, came to adulthood in a place of privilege in 1950's Atlanta. In 1964, at the age of 29, she died of breast cancer, leaving behind three small children.Thirty years later, her youngest child sets out to discover the mother he never knew. In this moving portrait of a mother discovered, Charles Lovett finds the words to fill the silence left by his mother's death and takes the reader on an emotionally powerful journey that celebrates life even in the face of death.