Drawn to Buck Creek: Answering the Call

Betty Brewer. Longwood, Fla.: Xulon Press, 2010. 140 pp. (Paperback).

Set against the backdrop of a visit back to the author’s childhood home, “Drawn to Buck Creek” is a memoir written by Alabama native Betty Brewer. Brewer’s story is one of grinding poverty, a large family, a philandering and sometimes abusive father and the eventual triumph of a family that placed its trust in God and His provision.

The book provides a glimpse of what life was like for rural Alabamians in the years following the Great Depression and are much like the stories told in an earlier generation by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  The children, grandchildren and friends of Brewer and her siblings are certain to treasure the book for the memories it preserves.