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Reviewed on March 15, 1992
At 17, Delana Mae Walsh runs away in shame from her middle-class home and becomes a cook on a Mississippi River tugboat. Seven years later, the prodigal daughter confidently returns as a tugboat pilot and new mother. Interspersed with comic scenes of the homecoming are painful flashbacks--scenes of adu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More