Growing Up Tough in the Hawley Shack

When Joyce Hawley's highly intelligent but unresponsible father moved his wife and children into a hastily constructed one room tarpaper shack and then essentially abandoned them, her life was set on a difficult and demanding path. This true story of Joyce's upbringing by her timid mother in surroundings offering only deprivation and hardship is a study in courage and determination ... and a strong faith in the power of Jesus.