In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect
of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world
of their rural North Carolina home and the new world
of the city, to which they have
moved in search
of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives
of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she
struggles to decide and discover the
kind of woman she will become.
I was always too poor to share —
struggling classical musician, the worst
kind — actually I'm 36 years old and don't think I have ever offically
moved out
of my mum's house, although I do live in Sweden now...